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
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
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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