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There are two main types of supernovae. Type 1 happen when a white dwarf take up gas from something near them and always explode that gas away from the white dwarf when they reach 1.38 times the mass of our sun. The gas moves at about nine million meters per second.

Type 2 happen when a very very big star runs out of fuel so they don't have any particular size.

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