Usually means: Explosive death of a star.
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  1. supernova: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. supernova: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. supernova: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. supernova: Collins English Dictionary
  5. supernova: Vocabulary.com
  6. supernova: Wordnik
  7. supernova: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. supernova: Wiktionary
  9. supernova: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. supernova: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. supernova: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. supernova: Dictionary.com
  13. supernova: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  1. supernova: Encyclopedia

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  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Supernova: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Supernova: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SUPERNOVA: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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(Note: See supernovae as well.)

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noun:  (astronomy) A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.
noun:  (figurative) Something brilliant.

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