nova

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Pair the bagels with hand sliced nova salmon, cream cheese, and a slice of tomato for a true feast.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025

Although astronomers have not observed any nova events in this system in recent history, such outbursts often recur every few thousand years.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2025

“Oganesson” is constructed around his delicate strummed riff, which recalls the ease of bossa nova, and it has an airiness and jazziness not found elsewhere on the record.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, who helped popularise bossa nova and samba with Western audiences, has died at the age of 83, his family has confirmed.

From BBC • Sep. 6, 2024

Where a nova could possibly be regarded as a miracle, a comet was too commonplace an occurrence to be handled in this way, so if comets were supralunary phenomena, Aristotle was wrong.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton