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| su·per·no·va [ spər nvə ] (plural su·per·no·vae [ spər nvee ] or su·per·no·vas) |
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exploding star: a catastrophic explosion of a large star in the latter stages of stellar evolution, with a resulting short-lived luminosity from 10 to 100 million times that of the Sun
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