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
A little more than 969 years ago—on July 4, 1054, to be more precise—the light from one of the universe’s most energetic and violent events reached Earth: a supernova, or exploding star.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023
He hypothesizes they could have originated from a magma ocean on a planet with an iron core or a region near an exploding star that was enriched with these elements.
From Salon • Sep. 1, 2023
The explosion is more than 10 times brighter than any recorded exploding star - known as a supernova.
From BBC • May 12, 2023
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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