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.
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Growth of Latino, Asian populations slows in outlying areas. The country's Latino population is now 55.4 million. California and Los Angeles County have the largest Latino populations of any state or county in the nation, according to the new figures.