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What is a superluminous supernova?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Unpredictability of Supernovae

All stars above a certain size will eventually burn out their fuel and collapse. But they don't all trigger exactly the same kind of supernova. And that's a lot of what we don't understand. We're just very recently able to even like simulate these things and see supernova happen on the computers. That's like you need another category for them like superlubinus supernovas.

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