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.
The state has the 5th largest population of African Americans in the United States, an estimated 2,250,000 residents. California's Asian American population is estimated at 4.4 million, constituting a third of the nation's total. California's Native American population of 285,000 is the most of any state.