The colossal stellar explosions called supernovae come in many kinds and flavors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocket News] Reference

These giants will end their brief lives dramatically in convulsive explosions called supernovae, just a few million years from now.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Its mission: to conduct a census of black holes, map exploding stars known as supernovae and observe other dynamic events in space.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Messier 83 is also one of the most prolific producers of supernovae, that is, exploding stars: this is one of the two galaxies, which had 6 supernovae in the past 100 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [YubaNet.com] Reference

The supernovae calibrated using Cepheids were unusual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Energy Has Long Been Dark-Energy-Like] Reference

But without supernovae we wouldn't be here (your scenario).    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Thinking Exercise: Bad Design] Reference

Nowadays, we think that supernovae or other methods are more precise.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Are We to Make Progress With w?] Reference

All supernovae have low-velocity cores of stable iron-group elements.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Ingite A Cosmic Lighthouse] Reference

The first is from observations of the light curves of Type Ia supernovae.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Are We to Make Progress With w?] Reference

So, even with supernovae and galaxies in collision, it is a perfect Universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [An argument against current 'reality'] Reference

Even without that correction, though, most Ia supernovae are consistent to 20%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Energy Has Long Been Dark-Energy-Like] Reference

Something definitely odd is going on with the supernovae — or with everything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Are We to Make Progress With w?] Reference

That a significant subset of supernovae come from detonating white dwarfs (Type Ia SN).    From Wordnik.com.  [Why it’s OK not to be Sean] Reference

I mean, just how many supernovae have been observed to conclude that this is "irregular".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

How does the formation of stars and the subsequent supernovae affect the surrounding gas?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Favorite Conference Title] Reference

If only you could have collected the golden thoughts formed in those mental supernovae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grounded, once again, in Madison, taking a brief account of a long trip.] Reference

That variations in supernovae properties correlate with the properties of the progenitor star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why it’s OK not to be Sean] Reference

Planets form from the left-overs of supernovae - which contain much, much more than hydrogen.    From Wordnik.com.  [About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man] Reference

One disadvantage of the GRB Hubble Diagram is that the GRBs are lower in quality than supernovae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolving dark energy?] Reference

What we did (effectively) was compare the slope of the low-redshift and high-redshift supernovae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Energy Has Long Been Dark-Energy-Like] Reference

Making the event even more unusual is the fact that the two supernovae belong to different types.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Finds Double Supernova | Impact Lab] Reference

Searches for everything from supernovae to prime numbers now happen as giant, distributed efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Does the Internet Make You Smarter?] Reference

But just as with supernovae, I expect that the accuracy of GRB luminosities can be rapidly improved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolving dark energy?] Reference

And so you might well get this sort of thing happening in, say, neutron star collisions or in supernovae.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

Galaxies and supernovae, protostellar jets and pulsars: these pictures of stars from the depths of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Bruno Sanz: Last Call to be World Leader] Reference

This knowledge has allowed the researchers to calibrate the brightness of supernovae with greater precision.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Ingite A Cosmic Lighthouse] Reference

In just the past six weeks, two supernovae have flared up in an obscure galaxy in the constellation Hercules.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Finds Double Supernova | Impact Lab] Reference

Of course, lots of people have tried to say that there are systematics in supernovae that are causing this ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Future cosmology Nobels] Reference

For example, one could assume that the rate at which stars explode, as supernovae, was quite different in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter and Extra-Dimensional Modifications of Gravity] Reference

Wolf-Rayet stars are candidates for turning into supernovae, and so their mass-loss history is of considerable interest.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Ticking Time Bomb?] Reference

There were, researchers have conjectured, perhaps up to ten supernovae whose traces we can read in the solar system today.    From Wordnik.com.  [‘The Fallen Sky: An Intimate History of Shooting Stars'] Reference

Its population is urbanizing faster than any in history, and its cities are expanding like supernovae across the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [06 « March « 2009 « Stephen Rees's blog] Reference

I know that supernovae neither require darkness, lighting, or exploding on the first page and do not even require mentioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alchemy on the First Page] Reference

While conducting a routine search for distant supernovae, astronomers observed a bright burst of light that they can't account for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

There are so few cases of prospectors who actually hung on to what they had found and died rich that they stand out like supernovae.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rolling Stones]

This gave me a chance to talk about the cosmological distance ladder, parallax, cepheid variables, type Ia supernovae, and much more.    From Wordnik.com.  [High School Physics Free-For-All] Reference

“Personally, I think changing the supernovae rate is more conservative than changing the number of spatial dimensions,” Pen confesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Matter and Extra-Dimensional Modifications of Gravity] Reference

Tails are sometimes seen on neutron stars as they are spat out at high speed from supernovae explosions, but the phenomena are short-lived.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mira-the streak of a 13-light-year-long tail] Reference