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New Class of Supernovae Puts Calcium in Our Bones Posted by Guy Pirro on 7/27/2010 5:12 PM In the past decade, robotic telescopes have turned astronomers' attention to many strange exploding stars -- one-offs that may or may not point to new and unusual physics. But supernova (SN) 2005E, discovered five years ago by the University of California, Berkeley's Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT), is one of eight known "calcium-rich supernovae" that seem to stand out as horses of a different color. These calcium-rich supernovae may be a true suborder and not just one of a kind. | Read full story |

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