Philip Morrison and Leo Sartori have presented a theory involving fluorescence of interstellar gas clouds to explain the observed spectra of Type I supernovas. According to their argument [Phys. Rev. Letters, 16, 414 (1966)], most of the supernova light comes from a gas cloud surrounding the exploding center, which is excited by ultraviolet radiation from the explosion.
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