exploding star
Britishnoun
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Astronomers have, for the first time, detected radio waves coming from an unusually rare kind of exploding star.
From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026
The burst of light, spotted in 2022, is now known to have had an exploding star at its heart, researchers say.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2024
Now a new measurement of the Hubble constant, made by observing a mirror image of a distant exploding star, or supernova, is complicating matters further.
From Scientific American • May 11, 2023
One intriguing theory is that millions of years ago, an exploding star light-years away pummeled Earth with cosmic radiation in the form of X-rays, gamma rays and ultraviolet rays.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2022
I imagined that parts of my insides and parts of her insides may have come from the same exploding star, billions of years ago.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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