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The Question
(Submitted May 03, 1999)
Who discovered what a supernova is? How did they discover it?
The Answer
Fritz Zwicky, Walter Baade, and Rudolph Minkowski developed the theories
about what supernovae are in the 1930s.
http://lycos.infoplease.com/ce5/CE050177.html
It took a while for these to be confirmed by various techniques. (e.g. the
discovery of pulsars inside supernova remnants.)
David Palmer and Samar Safi-Harb
for Ask an Astrophysicist
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