Why the Largest-Ever Catalog of Supernovae Could Change How We Study Them
A new catalog allows astronomers to trace the evolution of a star's death.
Source: inverse.com
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A new catalog allows astronomers to trace the evolution of a star's death.
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.
For the first time, a dying star's explosive end has been caught as it happened. Two telescopes in Hawaii witnessed