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Recent Examples of quasar The team spotted the distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole, using observations from the Subaru Telescope. —
Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Jan. 2026 Those same atoms, molecules, and/or ions absorb the light from behind them — whether from a quasar, a background galaxy, a star, or from the continuum — revealing those same characteristic quantum transitions. —Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025 After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars. —Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025 Still, if this is the engine behind all AGN, why do quasars, Seyferts and blazars all appear so different from each other? —Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quasar
Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 23 Jan. 2026 Those same atoms, molecules, and/or ions absorb the light from behind them — whether from a quasar, a background galaxy, a star, or from the continuum — revealing those same characteristic quantum transitions. —Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025 After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars. —Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025 Still, if this is the engine behind all AGN, why do quasars, Seyferts and blazars all appear so different from each other? —Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for quasar
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All the other elements in the periodic table had to be subsequently formed by stars, beginning with the supernova explosions of the most massive Population III stars.— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 Apr. 2026
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The most massive stars will die in a core-collapse supernova, often within merely a few million years after their birth.— Big Think, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
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That means a pulsar doesn't have to be perfectly aligned with Earth to be observed via its radio emissions.— Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026
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And magnetars are the most extreme of all: most of them are newborn pulsars that possess magnetic fields up to 1,000 times stronger than normal.— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
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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
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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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Light Light exposure is the biggest variable for getting seeds to sprout.— Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 20 Apr. 2026
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This is the first playoff clash between the Nuggets and Timberwolves since the latter swapped out a pretty important variable in its frontcourt — Karl-Anthony Towns for Julius Randle (and DiVincenzo).— Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2026
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However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change.— Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.— David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Jan. 2026
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Once a star dies, there are a number of possible fates that can ensue as well, as a stellar corpse can remain as a white dwarf, a neutron star, or a black hole.— Big Think, Big Think, 14 Apr. 2026
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Gamma-ray bursts happen without warning, when massive stars die and form black holes or during mergers of neutron stars and black holes.— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 23 Mar. 2026
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The project timeline The supercomputer’s construction was kicked off after xAI acquired a 1M sq ft warehouse in Memphis, along with adjacent land, forming the physical footprint for the next phase of the supercluster.— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 19 Jan. 2026
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Enterprise customers don't need dedicated GPU superclusters at this scale.— Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 15 Jan. 2026
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