The word supernova was coined by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1931. It is pronounced /ËsuËpÉrnoÊvÉ/ with the plural supernovae /ËsuËpÉrnoÊviË/ or supernovas (abbreviated SN, plural SNe after supernovae).
The largest number of Vietnamese outside Vietnam is in Orange County, California (184,153, or 6.1 percent of the county's population), followed by Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties; the three counties accounted for 26 percent of the Vietnamese immigrant population in the United States.
Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, New York City, and other areas of the New York metropolitan area, are home to by far the largest Russian population in the United States. The Russian American population is reported to be 3.13 million. Many Russian Americans do not speak Russian, having been born in the United States and brought up in English-speaking homes. In 2007, however, Russian was the primary spoken language of 851,174 Americans at home, according to the U.S. Census.