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How is a supernova detected?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Supernovae are very violent events resulting at the "death" of a star. Typically, they are detected by the very large amounts of radiation energies they release. Supernovae release beams of X-ray and Gamma radiation which instruments like telescopes and special satellites near Earth can detect. The creation of one also releases a great amount of visible light (unlike something like a black hole, for example, which is impossible to see with the naked eye but releases enormous amounts of other radiation that are obvious to special observation equipment).

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