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Measuring a Monstrous Supernova A rare Type Ia supernova whose progenitor star had a mass some two and a half times that of our sun - much more mass than a Type Ia progenitor should be able to accumulate before it explodes - has led members of the Nearby Supernova Factory based at Berkeley Lab to model a collision of two white dwarfs. They have the evidence to back up the model.
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