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At 600 light years away, the red supergiant Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion is the nearest massive star getting close to the end of its life.
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Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024
This red supergiant, many times the mass of the sun, has a boiling surface and is usually the tenth brightest in the sky.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Hubble had previously been employed to observe that region of the universe, meaning the team had historical data from the region—before the red supergiant star met its end.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
Early in the year, astronomers were mystified by the behavior of the dying red supergiant star in the constellation Orion.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
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Chris Impey, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2024
This red supergiant, many times the mass of the sun, has a boiling surface and is usually the tenth brightest in the sky.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Hubble had previously been employed to observe that region of the universe, meaning the team had historical data from the region—before the red supergiant star met its end.
—Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
Early in the year, astronomers were mystified by the behavior of the dying red supergiant star in the constellation Orion.
—Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2020
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Related article Webb telescope captures ‘green monster’ inside a young supernova The violent outbursts of supernovas typically destroy white dwarfs, but the partial explosion, known as a rare Type lax supernova, left behind a zombie star instead.Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024
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Pop supernova Chappell Roan may have another project in the works following her successful debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024
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Meanwhile, astronomers like Graber and Zubieta hope this work will enable a new diagnostic tool for pulsars.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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Last year, observations of the subtle movements of pulsating stars known as a pulsar timing array revealed a background hum of gravitational waves in the universe — ripples in the fabric of space-time.Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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Measurements of distances to quasars based on radio-interferometric techniques, for instance, are advancing, and there are prospects for using fluctuations in galaxy-surface brightness.Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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Or at least a lot like quasars from more recent periods in the Universe's history.John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 June 2024
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Do not conscript them into your game of high-speed moving variables.James Parker, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
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The 2020 election showed that there were aspects of Trump’s support that could not be fully accounted for with the demographic variables that pollsters had come to rely on.Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
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For example, Oracle recently chose AMD’s accelerated computing chips to power its latest supercluster for high-intensity AI workloads, after testing showed AMD’s GPUs delivered low latency and strong performance at a competitive price.Trefis Team, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
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Clusters can clump up in the cosmos to form clusters of clusters, called superclusters.Phil Plait, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2024
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Emperor tamarins are dwarf monkeys with whiskers that resemble a white moustache.Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Feb. 2023
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The dwarf variety grows to be about 5 to 7 feet, ideal for a small garden or accent in a room with limited space.Bryce Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
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The group calculated that approximately one in three gravitational waves of the right sort (neutron star collisions work best since their mergers last longer than black hole mergers) would make the bar ring with one quantum unit of energy.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
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These systems are made up of the black hole and a secondary object like a star, much denser neutron star, or another black hole.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
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An eye-opening new Hubble image shows the binary star system R Aquarii having a cosmic freakout.Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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There are many theories of gravity out there, and many interpretations of wide binary star data.Big Think, Big Think, 24 June 2024
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“Supergiant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supergiant. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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