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    Supernova: From Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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    A supernova is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion that occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when a white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion. At its peak, a supernova can be as bright as an entire galaxy. The original star is either completely destroyed or collapses into a neutron star or black hole. Supernovae are triggered by either the sudden re-ignition of nuclear fusion in a degenerate star or the sudden gravitational collapse of a massive star's core.

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    A supernova is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion that occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when a white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion. At its peak, a supernova can be as bright as an entire galaxy. The original star is either completely destroyed or collapses into a neutron star or black hole. Supernovae are triggered by either the sudden re-ignition of nuclear fusion in a degenerate star or the sudden gravitational collapse of a massive star's core.

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    A supernova is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion that occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when a white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion. At its peak, a supernova can be as bright as an entire galaxy. The original star is either completely destroyed or collapses into a neutron star or black hole. Supernovae are triggered by either the sudden re-ignition of nuclear fusion in a degenerate star or the sudden gravitational collapse of a massive star's core.

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    A supernova is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion that occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when a white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion. At its peak, a supernova can be as bright as an entire galaxy. The original star is either completely destroyed or collapses into a neutron star or black hole. Supernovae are triggered by either the sudden re-ignition of nuclear fusion in a degenerate star or the sudden gravitational collapse of a massive star's core.

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    A supernova (/ˌsuːpərnoʊvə/ plural: supernovae /ˌsuːpərnoʊviː/ or supernovas,


    abbreviations: SN and SNe) is a powerful and luminous stellar explosion. At its peak brightness, the
    optical luminosity of a supernova can be comparable to that of an entire galaxy, before fading over
    several weeks or months. A supernova is a transient astronomical event, occurring during the
    last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when a white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear
    fusion. The original star, called the progenitor, either collapses to a neutron star or black hole, or it is
    completely destroyed.
    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 naked-eye supernova events have been observed in the Milky Way during the last
    thousand years. The most recent directly observed supernova in the Milky Way was Kepler's
    Supernova in 1604, but the remnants of recent supernovae have also been found. Observations of
    supernovae in other galaxies suggest they occur in the Milky Way on average about three times
    every century. These supernovae would almost certainly be observable with modern astronomical
    telescopes. The most recent naked-eye supernova was SN 1987A, the explosion of a blue
    supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite of the Milky Way.
    Theoretical studies indicate that most supernovae are triggered by one of two basic mechanisms:
    the sudden re-ignition of nuclear fusion in a degenerate star or the sudden gravitational collapse of a
    massive star's core. In the first class of events, the object's temperature is raised enough to
    trigger runaway nuclear fusion, completely disrupting it. Possible causes are accumulation of
    sufficient material from a binary companion through accretion, or a merger. In the massive star case,
    the core of a massive star may undergo sudden collapse, releasing gravitational potential energy as
    a supernova. While some observed supernovae are more complex than these two simplified
    theories, the astrophysical mechanics have been established and accepted by most astronomers for
    some time.

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