Sentences with phrase «other bright supernovae»
Even at its peak brightness the newcomer was much fainter than the four other bright supernovae of the second millennium, which outshone every nighttime star.
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Other telescopes around the world soon confirmed that it was a type Ia supernova, one of the brightest events of the cosmos.
These explosions are up to 100 times brighter than other supernovas caused by the collapse of a massive star.
The Crab Nebula, the result of a bright supernova explosion seen by Chinese and other astronomers in the year 1054, is some 6,500 light - years from Earth.
More supernova research with Kepler will help astronomers on a quest to find out if different type Ia mechanisms result in some supernovae being brighter than others — which would throw a wrench into how they are used to measure the universe's expansion.