novas
- plural of nova.
Example Sentences
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There are more than 400 known novas in the Milky Way galaxy.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Infrared data can yield signals of colder material, in contrast to bright visible light signals that often come from novas and other powerful events.
From Scientific American ● May 3, 2023
There was a kind of cosmic rightness: two novas exploding together.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
In the 1980s, Shara had predicted that novas, novalike systems and dwarf novas were the same stars in different stages of an eruption cycle.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2017
Arguments over the location of novas and comets in the heavens thus continued even after 1610, after which date the traditional Ptolemaic system was abandoned by all competent participants.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
