Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that “standard candles” used to illuminate the size of the universe, termed Cepheids, shrink in mass, making them not quite as standard as once ...

A team of researchers at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) led by Robert Quimby has identified what may prove to be the first ever type Ia supernova (SNIa) ...

Type 1a supernovae serve as 'standard candles' in the night sky An international team of researchers has measured the mass of a distant exploding star system – and found that it weighs considerably ...

Your birthday cake isn’t the only thing studded with lights. If you see a faint light in the distance, it might be truly dim, or it might be quite bright but very far away. If you had some way of ...

Among the various questions we are often asked about, the one that comes to the forefront of the mind deals with how we accurately estimate how distant objects truly are from us. It’s a difficult task ...