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Who are the biggest super stars in the universe? For Adam Burrows, an astrophysics professor at Princeton University, it's not who, but "what," and they are far from Hollywood, or even Earth, for that matter. Burrows would tell you that the biggest super stars are supernovae--stars that die in massive explosions. Burrows investigates supernovae and recently created 3-D computer simulations showing the actual moment of a star's death. Credit: National Science Foundation


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