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How to use supernova in a sentence

17 example sentences · noun

Supernova means a powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed. Example: “The black hole formed as a result of fallback of ejecta onto the neutron star initially created by the supernova explosion.”

Examples of supernova by meaning

nounSomething brilliant.

  • Cornelius was the only one dressed in muscle but collectively they were a bully supernova.2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 59

More sentences with supernova

  • The black hole formed as a result of fallback of ejecta onto the neutron star initially created by the supernova explosion.From the entry fallback
  • The Crab Nebula is the most studied supernova remnant.From the entry supernova remnant
  • The star might go supernova soon.From the entry go supernova
  • And when the white dwarf accumulates too much mass, it will collapse and explode in a supernova.2024 August 21, Ashley Strickland, “An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky Way. Scientists aren’t certain what it…. From the entry accumulate
  • These grains of stardust formed in the atmospheres of evolved stars and in nova and supernova ejecta.2004 March 5, Ann N. Nguyen, Ernst Zinner, “Discovery of Ancient Silicate Stardust in a Meteorite”, in Science, volume 303, number 5663…. From the entry stardust
  • This model also predicts a correlation of gamma ray bursts with supernova events (not observed so far).1975, Astronomy and Astrophysics 1975-04: Volume 40, Issue 1-2, page 123. From the entry superflare
  • It is possible that supernovae occur in conjunction with either a satellite planet or binary star.1970 January 17, Stirling Colgate, “Ejection of Companion Objects by Supernovae”, in Nature, volume 225, Letters, pages 247–248. From the entry satellite planet
  • Claire Chase, a prominent flutist and educator, described her as a “supernova,” praising her collaborative and commanding style.2023 January 18, Javier C. Hernández, “A Conductor on a Mission to Help Ukraine”, in The New York Times. From the entry commanding
  • Those heavy elements were created by fusion within Population II stars that exploded as supernovas and seeded them into interstellar clouds.2021 May 21, Tom Metcalfe, “An ancient star casts new light on the birth of the universe”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 06…. From the entry Population II
  • Perhaps supernovas are twinkling omnicides in the sky.2020, Thomas Moynihan, X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction, Falmouth, Cornwall: Urbanomic Media, →ISBN, page 292. From the entry omnicide
  • We derive an integral condition for core-collapse supernova explosions and use it to construct a new diagnostic of explodability.2015, Jeremiah W. Murphy, Joshua C. Dolence, “An Integral Condition for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions”, in arXiv. From the entry explodability
  • Fast radiation-driven winds and supernovae input their huge kinetic power into the interstellar medium in the form of highly supersonic and superalfvenic outflows.2015, Andrei Bykov, “Nonthermal particles and photons in starburst regions and superbubbles”, in Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, volume…. From the entry superalfvenic
  • A supernova of bad karmic energy.2013 September 29, “Book review: Worst. Person. Ever. By Douglas Coupland”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry karmic
  • I've never seen a supernova blow up, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky.2001, J. Stewart Burns, “Roswell That Ends Well”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 19, spoken by Philip J. Fry (Billy West). From the entry light up
  • During burst the supernovas in forming stage throw more mass than the novas do and give a milliard-fold as much as luminosity as the Sun.1998, Jinning Wu, Yuhua Li, translated by Zhichao Wang, The Truth of the Universe, →ISBN. From the entry milliardfold
  • About 3.6 billion years ago, the sun and its planets coalesced from a cloud of stellar debris, probably helped along by the push from the explosion of a nearby supernova.2016 August 28, Dale Gnidovec, “Geology: Chemically unique meteorite found in quarry might be ‘extinct’”, in The Columbus Dispatch…. From the entry dust bunny

Meaning of supernova

  1. noun A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.
  2. noun Something brilliant.

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Questions about supernova in a sentence

How do you use supernova in a sentence?
Supernova is used as a noun. For example: “The black hole formed as a result of fallback of ejecta onto the neutron star initially created by the supernova explosion.”
What is a short sentence with supernova?
“A supernova of bad karmic energy.”
What does supernova mean?
Supernova means a powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.

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