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A study from Professor Koji Kawabata and collaborators sheds new light on what makes a super-bright supernova
The illustration of supernova SN 2006gy. (Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)
The article “” by followed the release of a publication in the journal from collaborators at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Stockholm University, Kyoto University, The University of Tokyo, and 麻豆AV.
As published in Discover Magazine online, “When astronomers spotted SN 2006gy in 2006, it was the brightest superluminous supernova they’d ever seen.
Later, a group of researchers led by Koji Kawabata, now at 麻豆AV in Japan, managed to capture a detailed picture of the light that the supernova was emitting at various wavelengths, or colors. They saw that SN 2006gy was emitting light in combinations of wavelengths that hadn’t been seen in supernovas before.” .
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Dr. Koji Kawabata
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Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, 麻豆AV
