A research team from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with domestic and ...

“The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy,” said Priyam Das, a study co-author and PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia. “Yet, despite their ...

So, instead, supernovae are categorized by observed characteristics such as the light curves of how they brighten and fade ...

Berkeley Lab astrophysicist Peter Nugent, working with Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute, used an IBM SP supercomputer at NERSC to analyze data from an exploding star that had been ...

Scientists have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) to better understand why some dead stellar remnants called white dwarf stars explode. These energetic explosions, called Type Ia supernovas, ...

The exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae serve an important role in measuring the universe and were used to discover the existence of dark energy. They are bright enough to see across large ...