en-us http://www.newsique.com/tags/science/berkeley/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/science/brightest_supernova_spotted/ Nathan Smith, of the University of California at Berkeley, who led the discovery team, described SN 2006gy as "a special kind of supernova that has never been seen before". He called it "freakily massive" at 150 times the mass of the sun. "This on news science 2007-05-08 12:16:54 http://www.newsique.com/science/brightest_supernova_spotted/ Al Jazeera http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/278F4153-930F-49AF-88EF-6378EB6AC5F2.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/al_jazeera/ 90 Under Rated [1] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/science/brightest_supernova_spotted/#comments