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Birth of Antares
Main Sequence
Death of Antares
Fusion
Sources
Big Bang
supernova
|ˈsoōpərˌnōvə|
noun
(
pl.
-novae
|-ˌnōvē|
or
-novas
)
Astronomy
a star
that
suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass.