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Galactic Hunt Bags Missing Supernova - Space Daily

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Editor’s preface : Astronomers have long thought that supernovas explode two or three times a century here in the Milky Way. They arrive at that figure by watching other galaxies similar to our own, and counting the stars as they explode. But this

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