Two very different mechanisms two different fundamental forces driving these two types of extremely energetic explosions and can we see these things well with the luminosity of 30,000,000 suns one would hope so the most famous one as mentioned in the quote at the beginning of The, the, the title slide of this video is the famous supernova of 1054 AD we have records for this from Japanese sources, Arabic sources nate even Native American sources possibly, no mention in European sources that I know of and the very famous Sung dynasty scholar describing the. 