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📅 NSB Round Robin 2018🎓 HS🔄 Round 17#️⃣ Question 6❓ Toss-Up📝 Multiple Choice

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab recently captured images of a Type one-A supernova in a galaxy four billion light-years away that appeared 50 times brighter than normal and in four different places in the sky. Which of the following did the scientists discover?

W) A Type-one-A supernova with a progenitor that was 20-50 times more massive than normal
X) An anomalous type-two supernova with a light curve resembling type Ia
Y) A light echo of a type-one-A supernova
Z) A type-one-A supernova whose image was strongly gravitationally lensed
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