Sentences with phrase «called superluminous»

One of the newly discovered supernovae, named SNLS - 06D4eu, is the most distant and possibly the most luminous member of an emerging class of explosions called superluminous supernovae.

Extremely bright exploding stars, called superluminous supernovae, and long gamma ray bursts also occur in this type of galaxy, he noted, and both are hypothesized to be associated with massive, highly magnetic and rapidly rotating neutron stars called magnetars.

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And, according to Laura Spitler, namesake of the Spitler burst and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, in Bonn, Germany, magnetars generally form from stellar explosions called Type - I superluminous supernovas.