The Romany, also known as Gypsies, are associated in popular culture with fortune-telling, with a nomadic caravan lifestyle, and with music and colorful dances. They live all across Europe, but usually remain distinct from other local populations.
supergiant-an extremely bright star of very large diameter and low density. star - (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior.
Astronomers from Caltech have confirmed the supernova and classified it as a young, reddened Type Ia supernova. These kinds of objects are thought to originate in a close binary system where at least one star is a white dwarf, or a small, dense core of a star that has ceased undergoing nuclear reactions.