As you may remember from physics class, changing the pressure of a liquid changes its temperature.

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The first in this class of exceptionally dim supernovae was discovered in 2002, noted Robert Fisher, assistant professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a co-author of the paper.

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"We've opened a whole new class of laser materials, " says Robert Byer, a professor in the applied physics department at Stanford.

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