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unusual facts about supernova


Karl-Ludwig Kratz

Elemental abundances from Supernova explosions are calculated in close collaboration with Friedrich-Karl Thielemann of the University of Basel.


A Puppis

Puppis A, a supernova remnant in the constellation Puppis.

Alicia M. Soderberg

Soderberg and her colleagues detected the supernova SN 2008D as it was occurring on January 9, 2008, using data from NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission X-ray space telescope, from a precursor star in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, 88 million light years away (27 Mpc).

Carlton R. Pennypacker

With Rich Muller, he co-founded the Berkeley Supernova Search, which later became the Supernova Cosmology Project.

Cassiopeia A

Astronomer William Ashworth and others have suggested that the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed may have inadvertently observed the supernova on August 16, 1680, when he catalogued a star near its position.

Chondrule

Isotope studies indicate a nearby supernova explosion added fresh material to what became our solar system.

Christopher D. Porter

The individuals on the label's roster are largely tech house or tribal house artists, and includes Paolo Mojo, Dr Kucho!, Supernova, Sabb, Chuck Love, Maher Daniel, and John Creamer & Stephane K.

Emi Hinouchi

Hinouchi was featured on songs such as "Summer Time Love" with fellow singer Ryohei Yamamoto, and "Love Comes and Goes" with Yoshika, Emyli, Lisa, and Ryohei on M-Flo's compilation album, "Award Supernova: Loves Best".

Galaxy Supernova

Girls' Generation's Japanese website announced that "Galaxy Supernova" will be used in an advertisement campaign for Samantha Thavasa Jeans, the very first jeans brand from Samantha Thavasa, a Japanese fashion company.

Geordi La Forge

During the events of the comic book mini-series Star Trek: Countdown (which serves as the canonical prequel to the 2009 Star Trek film), Geordi (now a commander) is reunited with Data and Picard during an effort to stop a massive supernova that threatens all of existence.

Ian Shelton

His discovery turned out to be a supernova, the first visible to the naked eye since Johannes Kepler observed SN 1604 nearly 383 years prior.

John Flamsteed

Three hundred years later, the American astronomical historian William Ashworth suggested that what Flamsteed may have seen was the most recent supernova in the galaxy's history, an event which would leave as its remnant the strongest radio source outside of the solar system, known in the third Cambridge (3C) catalogue as 3C 461 and commonly called Cassiopeia A by astronomers.

Kepler star

Kepler's Supernova, a supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, observed by the naked eye in 1604

Koko Stambuk

Along with Cristian Heyne formed the successful pop groups Supernova, Amango, CRZ, Kel, Six Pack, Stereo 3, Denise Rosenthal and Guffi.

Las Campanas Observatory

On February 24, 1987 at LCO, Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde became the first official observers of Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A).

Mario Hamuy

In February 1987, he came to the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and within a few days of his arrival when the Type II supernova SN1987A exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, he began a major campaign at CTIO to monitor this important supernova.

National Theater of Korea

It ran from 9 to 20 January at the Theater, starring actors Ji Hyun-woo, Kim Mu-yeol, Jung Tae-woo; as well as singers Leeteuk of Super Junior, Yoon Hak of Supernova, and Lee Hyun of 8Eight.

NGC 2403

As of late 2004, there had been two reported supernovae in the galaxy: SN 1954J, which attained a magnitude of 16 at its brightest, and SN 2004dj.

NGC 3982

In 1998, the light from a supernova in NGC 3982 (later called SN 1998aq) reached earth and was discovered by British amateur astronomer Mark Armstrong.

Otto Schindewolf

Schindewolf was also the first to suggest, in 1950, that mass extinctions might have been caused by extraterrestrial impacts or nearby supernova.

Pilar Ruiz-Lapuente

In 2004, she led the team that discovered the companion star to the white dwarf that resulted in famous supernova SN 1572, observed among others by Tycho Brahe.

SN 1006

A petroglyph by the Hohokam in White Tank Mountain Regional Park, Maricopa County, Arizona, has been interpreted as the first known North American representation of the supernova.

SN 1572

The supernova of 1572 is often called "Tycho's supernova", because of Tycho Brahe's extensive work De nova et nullius aevi memoria prius visa stella ("Concerning the Star, new and never before seen in the life or memory of anyone", published in 1573 with reprints overseen by Johannes Kepler in 1602, and 1610), a work containing both Tycho Brahe's own observations and the analysis of sightings from many other observers.

SN 1917A

SN 1917A is a supernova that occurred in the Fireworks Galaxy on 19 July 1917.

SN 2005B

SN 2005B, the second supernova discovered in 2005, was discovered by amateur astronomer Paul Gray, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, upon reviewing film shot by fellow amateur astronomer David J. Lane, at his backyard observatory in Stillwater Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada.

SN 2005bc

As the supernova was of Type Ia, its progenitor star was a White Dwarf star which exceeded the Chandrasekhar limit.

The supernova was at magnitude 16.4 at discovery, and quickly rose to a peak magnitude of around 15.3 (in visible light) just over a week after discovery.

SN 2011by

It was a type Ia supernova, discovered by Zhangwei Jin and Xing Gao (China).

Sneden's Star

Comparing the observed abundances for a stable element such as Europium (Z=63) and the radioactive element Thorium (Z=90) to calculated abundances of an r-process in a type II supernova explosion (as from the universities at Mainz and Basel groups of Karl-Ludwig Kratz and Friedrich-Karl Thielemann) allowed observers to determine the age of this star to about 13 billion years.

Supernovae in fiction

Some interpretations of this origin story, such as the 2006 film Superman Returns depict the destruction of Krypton as being caused by its sun (identified in the comics by the name Rao) going supernova.

The Futurama episode Roswell That Ends Well involves the main characters being sent back in time after radiation from a nearby supernova interacts with radiation produced by metal being heated in the ship's microwave.

In the Christmas episode of Svensson, Svensson (1994), Sara tells her friend Lena she noticed in the newspaper that the Sun will explode within 3 000 years, contrary to scientific theories that the Sun will go through the circle red yellow dwarf star-giant star-white giant star through the leap of millions of years, rather than go supernova.

The 2009 direct-to-video film 2012: Supernova is about life on Earth potentially being destroyed by a nearby supernova.

T Pyxidis

Because of its relative proximity, some—in particular, Edward Sion, astronomer & astrophysicist at Villanova University, and his team therefrom—contend that a type 1a supernova could have a significant impact on Earth.

Thomas David Anderson

The former marked the first time a nova's spectrum had been photographed, while the latter eventually reached magnitude 0.2 to become the brightest nova in history since the supernova SN 1604, though it was later topped by Nova Aquilae 1918.

Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels

'New stars' (in particular two supernovas, Tycho's Nova of 1572, and Kepler's Nova of 1604), that suddenly appeared, having a white colour in the brightest phase, then turning to yellow and red, and finally fading out.

UH88

The Nearby Supernova Factory project, based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, also has its Supernova Integrated Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) instrument mounted on UH88.

University of Toronto Southern Observatory

Although small by modern standards, the Southern Observatory nevertheless became famous for its role in the discovery of SN 1987A when UofT astronomer Ian Shelton spotted the supernova while attempting to fix another disused telescope at the site.

Where I Find My Heaven + Flippin' Out

This compilation adds two additional tracks to Where I Find My Heaven, "Supernova Crush" and "Little Carl".

Wipro Supernova

Wipro Supernova is the name of a series of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions offered by Wipro Infotech.

Yanokami

In 2003, Akiko found Harakami via Quruli's song Bara no Hana (remixed by Rei Harakami) on the album World's End Supernova.


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