Novae
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That was how divorced from the human scale modern warfare had become. You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off...and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.
Adding the prefix "super-" distinguishes supernovae from ordinary novae, which are far less luminous.
His publications on astronomy include a commentary (1542, 1553) on Georg Purbach 's Theoricae novae planetarum.
Curtis noticed that these novae were, on average, 10 magnitudes fainter than those that occurred within our galaxy.
Extragalactic novae Messier 31 Image by NASA Novae in the Andromeda galaxy ( M31 ) are relatively common.
Helium novae A helium nova (or helium flash) is a proposed category of nova explosion that lacks hydrogen lines in the spectrum.