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Suppose that the brightness of a star becoming a supernova increases by 20 magnitudes. Show that this corresponds to an increase of 10^8 in luminosity.

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Brightness of a Supernova is examined.

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We know that if denotes the brightness of two stars whose magnitudes are and , , then

or, -----------------------(1)

Let be the ...

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