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It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the dramatic explosion of a particular kind of white dwarf. In 1998, they announced ...

An international team of astronomers has made groundbreaking observations of the supernova remnant (SNR) SNR J0450.4−7050 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), offering new insights into its size and ...