"It takes thousands of years for supernova remnants to evolve, but with this nova we've watched the same kinds of changes over just a few days, " said Kent Wood, a co-author on the Science study from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.

BBC: Gamma rays from nova explosion surprise astronomers

Dr. BROCK: And so in a study of over 500 women from the Washington, DC, area, as a matter of fact, more than 50 percent of them were very happy with their, you know, overweightness because their husbands or counterpart felt that--the person in their lives felt that that's the way they liked them, so they were very satisfied with having hips and thighs, and this is a norm for us.

NPR: Roundtable: Black Women and Body Image