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# supernova

«supernova» in Mova's school dictionary: **a gigantic explosion of a star at the end of its life…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a supernova, supernovae or supernovas)

### meaning for a pupil

A supernova is a gigantic explosion of a star at the end of its life, which can shine brighter than a whole galaxy for a short time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supernova/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and space lessons, very big stars end their lives as supernovae, leaving a neutron star or black hole. Supernovae spread elements like iron and gold into space, so the atoms in our bodies were made in stars. A supernova was seen from Earth in 1054 and made the Crab Nebula.

### examples

- A supernova is the explosion of a huge star. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supernova/#x1)
- The Crab Nebula is left over from a supernova. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supernova/#x2)
- Supernovae make heavy elements like gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supernova/#x3)
- For a few weeks the supernova outshone its galaxy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supernova/#x4)
- Our Sun is too small to become a supernova. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supernova/#x5)
- Astronomers spotted a new supernova in a distant galaxy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supernova/#x6)

### note

Plural: supernovae (said soo-per-NOH-vee) or supernovas. A nova is a smaller star blast. Our Sun will not become a supernova; it will become a red giant and then a white dwarf.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «supernova» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/supernova/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.