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Monday, May 7. 2007, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Discovery is announced of the Kerguelen Plateau, an Antarctic sunken large island formerly joined to India, from the icebreaker Polarstern at its homeport of Bremerhaven, Germany, after a 19-month research voyage to Antarctica. //timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2009270.cms (Times of India)

NASA announces that the Chandra X-ray Observatory and ground-based telescopes have discovered a massive supernova designated SN 2006gy, the largest ever recorded, and possibly a new type that has been predicted but never observed. //news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6633609.stm (BBC) //www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070507_brighest_sn.html (Space.com)