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What is a supernova?

What is a supernova? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (astronomy) A star which explodes, increasing its brightness to typically a billion times that of our sun, though attenuated by the great distance from our sun. Some leave only debris (Type I); others fade to invisibility as neutron stars (Type II).
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The appearance of this supernova was also recorded in carvings made by the Anasazi Indians of the American Southwest.
This reveals how fast the universe was expanding at the time the supernova explosion occurred.
For nebulas there are emission nebula, reflection nebulas, planetary nebulas, dark nebulas and supernova remnants.
The Sun agglomerated from a huge cloud of gas and dust, which was largely the debris left from previous expired stars and supernova explosions.
A stellar-mass black hole forms when a heavy star collapses under its own weight in a supernova explosion.
The supernova observations call out for some gravitationally repulsive substance to drive the cosmic acceleration.

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