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• In the year 1054 Chinese astronomers saw a supernova in the constellation of Taurus.
• The way you can tell a supernova from a white dwarf is that a supernova is rarer and HUGE compared to white dwarf. Today it's known as the Crab Nebula.
• Some supernovae shatter completely, leaving behind only the wispy gases behind.
• Did you know that a tiny drop of a neutron star weighs a billion tons on earth?
• A hypernova is 100 times more powerful than a supernova.
• The sun collapse of a supernova causes a neutron star to spin very rapidly and give off a beam of x-ray radiation.  Like the beam from a light house, we can detect the x-rays as a pulse.  So a rotating neutron star is called a pulsar.    

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