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supernovae

n. (plural of supernova English)

WordNet
supernova
  1. n. a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process

  2. [also: supernovae (pl)]

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Usage examples of "supernovae".

But the universe is vast, and supernovae are normally much too far away to harm us.

These are of course respectable numbers, but even with so much to take in, supernovae are extremely rare.

In the whole of astronomical history before Evans started looking in 1980, fewer than sixty supernovae had been found.

Ia supernovae than visual sightings were providing, set out to find a more systematic method of searching for them.

Probably there had been chain reactions of supernovae, with the wreckage of one star destabilizing another.