exploding star
Britishnoun
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“We expect that exploding star supernova are emitting gravitational waves, but we have not detected them yet.”
From New York Times
Depending on the properties of an exploding star, it can take anywhere from seconds to hours for the light associated with a supernova to make its way out of the fireball.
From Scientific American
But it's also a human drama about how Anna Y. Q. Ho had to sleep in a sleeping bag in a remote observing lab, wake up at 4 A.M. and race the dawn to get a reading on an exploding star 21 billion light-years away.
From Scientific American
Other theories suggest the megalodon was killed off by an exploding star approximately 2.6 million years ago.
From Fox News
She covered the net with the apparent wingspan of a Boeing 737; she leapt for the ball like an exploding star.
From The Guardian
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