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Supernovae

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1941

Edwin Powell Hubble1941

Science / Astronomy

Hubble publishes a substantial review of supernovae in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, discussing these exceptionally luminous stellar explosions as phenomena observable in external galaxies.

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Edwin Powell Hubble

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