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Credit: NASA / ESA / P. Challis / R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

A Type II supernova (plural: supernovae or supernovas) results from the rapid collapse and violent explosion of a massive star. Image is the expanding remnant of SN 1987A, a Type II-P supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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