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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 Â鶹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 Â鶹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, Â鶹AV
