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The Pan-STARRS telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui has collected data that is now being released as the largest catalog of exploding stars. The data from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy’s Pan-STARRS telescope contains three years of research and is now publicly available via the Young Supernova Experiment.

The project, which began in 2019, surveyed more than 1,500 square degrees of sky every three days, and discovered thousands of new cosmic explosions.

Classifying Supernova Explosions Using Artificial Intelligence Image Credit: Shutterstock/NASA images Machine learning and classification could help astronomers better understand and classify the Universe’s most explosive events.  Supernovae, massive cosmic explosions that represent the final death throes of stars, offer astronomers and cosmologists a vital tool for understanding the Universe. In particular, one type of these massive explosions — Type Ia supernovae — can be used ...