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What Lit the Lamps That Let Humanity Measure the Universe - podcast episode cover

What Lit the Lamps That Let Humanity Measure the Universe

Mar 21, 2023•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast

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Type Ia supernovas are astronomers’ best tools for measuring cosmic distances. In a first, researchers recreated one on a supercomputer to learn how they form. Thanks for listening to WIRED. Talk to you next time for more stories from WIRED.com.

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