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SUMMARY:Exploding Stars in a Whirlpool and a Pinwheel
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 Dr Horace Smith will discuss:  The summer of 2011 
 saw two supernova explosions in nearby star 
 systems.  At the end of May, one star exploded 
 in the spiral galaxy M51, also known as 
 the Whirlpool Galaxy.  In late August, a second 
 star exploded in M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy 
 .  Both exploding stars became bright enough 
 to see in small telescopes, but the type of 
 explosions was different in each case.  The supernova 
 in M51 might mark the death of a massive 
 star.  The supernova in M101 might indicate 
 the death of a low mass star in a binary 
 star system.  What do we know, suspect, and not 
 know at all about these relatively nearby 
 stellar explosions?\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Department of Physics Astronomy\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams\n
 Contact name: Mary Gowans\n
 Contact phone: 517-355-4676\n
 Contact email: gowans@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.pa.msu.edu/abrams\n
LOCATION:Abrams Planetarium
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