Tag: supernovae
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Winners of the 2026 RAS Awards Revealed: Groundbreaking Pulsar Discoveries and Magnetic Field Geophysics Honored
Celebrating Pioneering Minds: 2026 RAS Award Winners The Royal Astronomical Society has announced the winners of its prestigious 2026 prizes, recognizing two researchers whose work spans the most extreme corners of the cosmos and the dynamic geophysics of our own planet. One recipient is famed for transformative discoveries in millisecond pulsars, gamma-ray bursts, and supernovae.…
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Groundbreaking Winners Announced for the 2026 Royal Astronomical Society Awards
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) has revealed its winners for the 2026 awards, celebrating outstanding achievements across astronomy, astrophysics, and related disciplines. This year’s recipients highlight the breadth and depth of modern space science, from the tiniest neutron stars to the dynamic field of geophysics. Here, we profile the two laureates whose work has earned…
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Winners of the 2026 RAS Awards Announced: Pioneering Pulsars, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Magnetic Field Mastery
Two Visionaries Honored by the Royal Astronomical Society The Royal Astronomical Society has announced the winners of its prestigious 2026 awards, Celebrating two researchers whose work spans the cosmic extremes from the fastest spinning stars to the planet’s subtle magnetic heartbeat. The prizes recognize a career of groundbreaking discoveries in high-energy astrophysics and a mathematically…
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Universe Expansion Theory Reframes Cosmology with Dimmer Supernovae
New findings prompt a rethink of how we measure the cosmos A team from Yonsei University in South Korea has proposed a provocative twist on the classic story of how our universe expands. By asking a simple question — could some Type Ia supernovae be naturally dimmer than others? — the researchers argue that the…
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New Theory of Universe Expansion May Upend How We Look at the Cosmos
Rethinking Standard Candles in Cosmology For decades, astronomers have relied on Type Ia supernovae as standard candles—cosmic beacons whose brightness helps measure distances across the expanding universe. This method underpins calculations of the Hubble constant, the rate at which the cosmos stretches. Yet recent work from researchers at Yonsei University in South Korea challenges a…
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Dimmer Supernovae May Rewrite Our Universe’s Expansion
New Theory Challenges a Cornerstone of Cosmology A provocative new study from Yonsei University in South Korea asks a deceptively simple question: what if some supernovae are naturally dimmer than others? The team’s hypothesis is that the brightness of certain Type Ia supernovae—the standard candles astronomers rely on to measure cosmic distances—depends on the age…