• calcium-rich supernova (or Calcium-rich transient, Ca-rich SN) is a subclass of supernovae that, in contrast to more well-known traditional supernova...
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    type Ic. However, later analysis determined that it was instead a calcium-rich supernova, a (then) new type of astronomical transient. "A spiral disguised"...
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    classified as type Ic-BL or Ic-bl. Calcium-rich supernovae are a rare type of very fast supernova with unusually strong calcium lines in their spectra. Models...
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    supernova was detected within NGC 5559, and was subsequently designated SN 2001co. However, in 2003, the supernova was identified as a calcium-rich supernova...
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    confirmed the presence of two satellite galaxies for NGC 3689. One calcium-rich supernova has been observed in NGC 3689: AT 2024mxe (type Gap, mag. 17.7)...
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    October 17, 2007. "Host Galaxies of Calcium-Rich Supernovae". Retrieved August 17, 2015. Anonymous (May 21, 2008). "Supernova caught exploding on camera". Reuters...
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  • SN 2005E (redirect from Supernova 2005E)
    SN 2005E (aka 2005-1032) was a calcium-rich supernova first observed in January 2005 that scientists concluded was a new type of cosmic explosion. The...
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    SN 1885A (redirect from Supernova 1885)
    Andromedae) was a supernova in the Andromeda Galaxy, the only one seen in that galaxy so far by astronomers. It was the first supernova ever seen outside...
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    by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) on 21 March 2004. The spectrum indicated this might be a calcium-rich supernova. SN 2019gss (type II-P...
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    stripped core-collapse supernovae. When a supernova is observed, it can be categorized in the Minkowski–Zwicky supernova classification scheme based upon the...
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    Transient Facility on 11 July 2022. This supernova has been described as one of the brightest calcium-rich supernovae known. SN 2023ldh (type IIn, mag...
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    been a Type Ia supernova from a white dwarf, possibly the merger of two white dwarfs. Tycho's Supernova of 1572 was also a type Ia supernova, and its remnant...
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    reached maximum magnitude of ~13.0 before fading away. It was a Type Ia supernova (i.e., the progenitor star was white dwarf). White dwarfs are older stars...
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    Another dramatic example is given by supernova condensates, usually shortened by acronym to SUNOCON (from SUperNOva CONdensate) to distinguish them from...
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    Supernova Searches) on 12 March 2001. This supernova was initially thought to be type IIn or LBV, but later analysis concluded that it was a Calcium-rich...
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    the new groups of optical transients such as superluminous supernovae, calcium-rich supernovae, and luminous red novae. The success of his astronomical research...
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  • goes supernova. Because no supernova is perfectly symmetric, and because the binding energy of the binary changes with the mass lost in the supernova, the...
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    rain, killing vegetation, plankton and organisms which build shells from calcium carbonate (coccolithophorids and molluscs). Before 2000, arguments that...
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    meteorite in history." The Allende meteorite has abundant, large calcium–aluminium-rich inclusions (CAI), which are among the oldest objects formed in the...
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    than a billion years are located in the central region. The calcium-rich type Ib supernova SN 2005cz was discovered on July 28, 2005. The progenitor star...
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    occurrences. Other minerals such as monticellite (CaMgSiO4), an uncommon calcium-rich mineral, share the olivine structure, but solid solution between olivine...
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    rather from the supernova of a metal-rich star. The two objects in the binary system were probably not born together as a supernova would likely eject...
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    models of supernova explosions. 1% of presolar grains (supernova grains) have very large excesses of calcium-44, a stable isotope of calcium which normally...
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    atomic weights higher than that of iron, it is only naturally formed in supernova explosions. The primary uranium ore mineral is uraninite (UO2) (previously...
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    not gravitationally bound to any group. SN 2001ig was a rare Type IIb supernova discovered by Australian amateur Robert Evans on the outer edge of NGC...
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    in supernovae as a byproduct of supernova nucleosynthesis. The phosphorus-to-iron ratio in material from the supernova remnant could be up to 100 times...
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    light-years away. One supernova has been observed in NGC 5714: SN 2003dr (type Ib/c, mag. 17.9). "The curious case of calcium-rich supernovae". www.spacetelescope...
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    of three helium nuclei to a carbon nucleus. When such stars explode as supernovas, much of the magnesium is expelled into the interstellar medium where...
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    Majoris (abbreviated to VY CMa) is an extreme oxygen-rich red hypergiant or red supergiant (O-rich RHG or RSG) and pulsating variable star 1.2 kiloparsecs...
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  • Grossman in 1973, in the oxygen isotopic composition of refractory calcium–aluminium-rich inclusions in the Allende meteorite. The inclusions, thought to...
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