supernova
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“She was like a burning supernova in the sky,” says actor and musician Jack Black, an old friend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The once-humble laundromat has become a social-media supernova in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Using deep observations from the VLT's FORS2 instrument, they looked for a bright supernova.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Taken together, the measured distance, the absence of a supernova and the properties of the burst provided strong evidence that the event came from a neutron star merger.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Hermes glowed with the light of a supernova.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
The team also investigated time dilation in observations of supernovae.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026
The observatory helped astronomers investigate active galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, stars that produce powerful X-ray flares, and supernovae, the enormous explosions that mark the deaths of certain stars.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Radiation from young, massive stars may escape their galaxies before those stars explode as supernovae and generate large winds that reshape the surrounding environment.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
"Our findings highlight the need to examine how radiation and winds from young stars shape the surrounding gas before the first supernovae explode."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
The super-bright novae are called, logically enough, supernovae.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
The brand-new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is supposed to complete a groundbreaking “survey” of the universe, the most comprehensive catalog of its galaxies, asteroids, supernovas and black holes ever completed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
"Our prediction is that we'll see a lot more galactic cosmic radiation... which is from supernovas and is everywhere," versus radiation coming from the Sun, he said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026
Gamma ray bursts are associated with exploding supernovas, but this was so bright that it could not be easily explained.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
It's also possible that they aren't conventional supernovas at all, instead triggered by a star's merger with a black hole.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023
But unlike Hubble’s dim Cepheids, supernovas are visible halfway across the universe.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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