Gopher
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 Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 12:01 am Post subject: Brightest Supernova Ever...? |
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All Things Considered, May 7, 2007 � Astronomers say they've discovered an exploding star, a supernova, far brighter than any seen before.
"This was a truly monstrous explosion, a hundred times more energetic than a typical supernova," said Nathan Smith of the University of California at Berkeley, who led a team of astronomers from California and the University of Texas in Austin.
"That means the star that exploded might have been as massive as a star can get, about 150 times that of our sun. We've never seen that before."
The tantalizing, initial observations of supernova SN 2006gy are being published in the Astrophysical Journal. |
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