Multiple Choice
Supernovae are very energetic events.Of the following events, which is the brightest that a supernova can outshine at their maximum?
A) our entire Milky Way galaxy
B) an entire globular cluster of stars
C) the high-mass star Eta Carinae
D) a 1,000 RSUN red supergiant star
E) a 50-day-period classical Cepheid
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