Examples of stellar explosions have emerged that fall outside the traditional types of supernova. The nature of the stars that produce them and the mechanism by which they explode is far from clear.
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Branch, D. New explosions of old stars?. Nature 465, 303–304 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465303a
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