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Recent Examples of supergiant
Young Thug has been teasing Uy Scuti — which takes its name from a red supergiant star 5,900 light years away — for about a month now.
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
Imaging the innermost circumstellar environment of the red supergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
—Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Unlike other supergiants, however, a segment of Bathynomus vaderi’s back section narrows and curves backward in a unique way.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2025
These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.
—Julianna Bragg, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
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Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2025
Imaging the innermost circumstellar environment of the red supergiant WOH G64 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
—Tom Howarth, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Unlike other supergiants, however, a segment of Bathynomus vaderi’s back section narrows and curves backward in a unique way.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2025
These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.
—Julianna Bragg, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supergiant
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Learning about their diversity could help astronomers compare these supernovas with one another, refining our understanding of dark energy.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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The Doctor used the Vindicator, now a part of the Palace clock, to blast Omega with the power of a billion supernovas, forcing him back into his cage.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
31 May 2025
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The simulation also predicts the possible formation of a rare, hypothetical object known as a black hole pulsar.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
5 June 2025
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But pulsars flash much faster than ASKAP J1832 does, on the order of milliseconds to seconds.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
30 May 2025
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Related article Largest celestial object of its kind discovered in the distant universe Highly dynamic, luminous quasars are rare, according to NASA.—
Kameryn Griesser,
CNN Money,
23 May 2025
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The new findings describe a galactic battle between the galaxy on the right in the image above, which hosts an actively feeding black hole, a quasar, at its center, and its neighbor on the left, which is being bombarded by intense radiation that disrupts its ability to form new stars.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
24 May 2025
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Recorded live at the Lincoln Center, the band plays a bossa-nova take on the song while Gaga sings solo, wearing one of Cher’s own wigs.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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To get a separate measure of how unusual this is, the researchers placed 8 million novas around the center of the galaxy, with the distribution being random but biased to match the galaxy's brightness under the assumption that novas will be more frequent in areas with more stars.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
27 Sep. 2024
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In the real world, however, those variables are deeply entangled.—
John Walkup,
Forbes.com,
16 June 2025
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Another variable to consider is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC.—
Jesse Pound,
CNBC,
13 June 2025
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The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, is dwarfed by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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This sell-off indicated a sense that the next wave of AI models may not require the tens of thousands of top-end GPUs that Silicon Valley behemoths have amassed into computing superclusters for the purposes of accelerating their AI innovation.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
28 Jan. 2025
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Tell me a little bit about the technical side of filming a dwarf and an elf together.—
Devan Coggan,
EW.com,
13 Oct. 2022
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Other new characters include Disa, the first female dwarf ever shown in the Lord of the Rings series.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2022
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The complete gravitational collapse that results creates either a neutron star or a black hole, and also sends out a blast of energy and high-speed particles that can traverse star systems and entire galaxies in some cases.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
13 June 2025
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For Córdova, that path began with a moment of astonishment: watching a television program about neutron stars as a young woman, she was struck by the immensity of the cosmos and felt the pull of a question that would guide her for a lifetime — how does the universe work?—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 27 Jun. 2025.
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