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.
AAG Center for Global Geography Education. Population Growth in California. Looking at the larger state scale, California is the most populous state in the United States with an estimated 36.8 million residents in 2008 (US Census Bureau 2008a). Its rate of population growth was explosive from after World War II to the first years of the 21st century. Although the rate of growth has slowed recently, it was still among the highest in the U.S. between 2000 and 2005 (Figure 3).