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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Space. I'm Clara Moskowitz. Got a minute?
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2 .Most supernovae are caused by stars collapsing at the end of their lives to create black holes or dense neutron stars.
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3 .But those outcomes are apparently not true for two recently found supernovae that are much farther away and brighter than almost any star explosion ever seen.
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4 .Astronomers were initially mystified.
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5 .But a new study posits that the oddball supernovae may have ended up as highly magnetic, rapidly spinning objects called magnetars.
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6 .A magnetar can rotate as fast as the blades of a kitchen blender.
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7 .The huge amount of energy tied up in their spin could then be released in a torrent that would make them shine 100 times brighter than a normal supernova.
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8 .A project called the Supernova Legacy Survey discovered the objects.
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9 .They belong to a newly designated class called superluminous supernovae,
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10 .which account for just one in every 10,000 supernovae.
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11 .Yet their extreme brilliance means we can see them from much farther away than usual.
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12 .For instance, one is about 10 billion light-years away and dates from the very early universe.
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13 .So in a way, this discovery is really old news.
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14 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Space. I'm Clara Moskowitz.
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