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
Scientists first proposed this supernova-triggering electron capture mechanism in 1980, but it wasn’t actually observed until 2018 via telltale signatures in the light from a distant exploding star in another galaxy.
From Scientific American • Nov. 10, 2023
A leading hypothesis is that the solar system began as a massive cloud of interstellar dust and gas that collapsed, perhaps from the shockwave of a supernova triggered by an exploding star.
From Salon • Feb. 16, 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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