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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025 -
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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For so many elements to still be visible implies that their accretion onto the white dwarf must have happened relatively recently — within the past 35,000 years.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Another potential cause is a white dwarf — a dead star as heavy as our sun but condensed to the size of Earth — being ripped apart by a rare intermediate-mass black hole.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
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As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the mass of our sun into a small volume.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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In the 10 years since then, scientists have detected hundreds of black holes coming together, as well as other extreme cosmic events like neutron stars colliding and black holes merging with a neutron star.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
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This observation seemed to support the pulsar theory, with experts theorizing that the glow would have taken a more spherical form if its source were dark matter.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
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Science fiction has, of course, been portraying exoplanets for decades, and in 1992, radio astronomers Dale Frail and Aleksander Wolszczan discovered planets orbiting a pulsar, the spinning remnant of a massive star that has gone supernova.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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That will be the key variable in this entire season.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Above all, Warrick said, timing remains the biggest variable in determining when and how companies can begin the refunding process.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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Using artificial neutral networks, his tool allows astronomers to distinguish true binary star systems from chance alignments in massive data sets like the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission.—
Regina Elling,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025
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The double stars of Albireo are considered a binary star system, just over 400 light-years away, with just one light-year equaling nearly 6 trillion miles.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
14 Sep. 2025
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Found by Hubble before JWST’s launch, GNz7q looked like a mix of a galaxy and a quasar.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Oct. 2025
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Additionally, this quasar is also producing jets of particles moving at nearly the speed of light, a rare feature among quasars.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Sep. 2025
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The nebula has been observed shining in radio, X-ray and visible light, as the cloud of stellar material pushed outward by a supernova explosion 10,000 years ago comes into contact with the mass of interstellar gas beyond.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Hubbard could be eased back into action, given that Dowdle has recently gone supernova.—
Andy Behrens,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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