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What is dark energy? Exploding white dwarf stars may help us crack the case

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Astronomers found diversity of ways white dwarf stars can blow up.

They assessed 3,628 exploding white dwarfs during a next-generation sky survey.

A better understanding of type Ia supernovas could help solve the mystery of dark energy.

These exploding stellar remnants have been integral to the measurement of cosmic distances for three decades .

Astrophysics team uncovers diversity of type Ia supernovae to study cosmic distance calculations.

The findings were published across a series of papers published in a special edition of Astronomy & Astrophysms .

The researchers were also able to probe how type.

Ia.

supernovas vary according to the environments in which they erupt.

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