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a dying star's way of going out with maximum drama and free heavy metal.
means the catastrophic explosion of a massive star (or a white dwarf pushed past its limit), briefly outshining entire galaxies.
from from latin nova, new star, since ancient skywatchers thought a sudden bright light was a star being born; super was tacked on in the 1930s by astronomers zwicky and baade once they realized these were something far bigger and rarer than ordinary novae.
element factoryforged most of the iron in your blood.
brightnesscan outshine its entire host galaxy briefly.
last one seennaked eye, in our galaxy, was 1604.
leftoveroften collapses into a neutron star or black hole.