exploding star
Britishnoun
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Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Earth is traveling through a cloud of ancient stellar debris left behind by a long ago exploding star.
From Science Daily ● May 14, 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
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
Like exoplanets at certain points in orbit around their stars, or an exploding star, or some other phenomenon that’s time-dependent.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 11, 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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