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noun - a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process
SUPERNOVA - A supernova ( plural: supernovae or supernovas, abbreviations: SN and SNe) is a transient astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evo...
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| In 1054 the Chinese observed one of these "super" astronomic cataclysms that ends a star's life |
| A "super" one of these hurls debris through space at over 40 million MPH & then can form a nebula |
| The crab nebula is the remnant of one of these witnessed by Chinese astronomers in 1054 |
| Spanning about 35 degrees in the southern sky, the Gum Nebula is a large remnant of one of these explosions |
| It's the "super" celestial event glimpsed here by the Hubble Telescope |
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A supernova ( plural: supernovae or supernovas, abbreviations: SN and SNe) is a transient astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary stages of a star's life, either a massive star or a white dwarf, whose destruction is marked by one final, titanic explosion. This causes the sudden appearance of a "new" bright star, before slowly fading from sight over several weeks or months or years. * Supernovae are more energetic than novae. In Latin, nova means "new", referring astronomically to what appears to be a temporary new bright star. Adding the prefix "super-" distinguishes supernovae from ordinary novae, which are far less luminous. The word supernova was coined by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1931.Only three Milky Way naked-eye supernova events have been observed during the last thousand years, though many have been seen in other galaxies using telescopes. The most recent directly observed supernova in the Milky Way was Kepler's Supernova in 1604, but two more |