A stellar explosion of record-breaking brightness in a distant galaxy may be the first known example of a rare “pulsational pair-instability” supernova (an artist's interpretation of a generic supernova, shown).
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A stellar explosion of record-breaking brightness in a distant galaxy may be the first known example of a rare “pulsational pair-instability” supernova (an artist's interpretation of a generic supernova, shown).
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