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2020-12-15: The Supernova At The End of Time

  • 09:45: ... a way for some of these iron stars to end on a brighter note - as black dwarf supernovae. ...
  • 11:03: ... type of supernova that will only happen in that distant future - a black dwarf supernova. ...
  • 12:14: ... we’ve decided to dedicate all 10^3600 years of black dwarf supernovae across the entire end of the universe as a barely-adequate fireworks ...
  • 12:25: And if it turns out that black dwarf supernovae don’t actually exist - well, I can assure you that our gratitude still does.

2016-05-04: Will Starshot's Insterstellar Journey Succeed?

  • 11:03: ... some sort of luminosity reference point before we can start using white dwarf supernovae or Type 1a supernovae, the standard ...
  • 11:25: We do that by finding independent distances to white dwarf supernovae in nearby galaxies.

2016-04-27: What Does Dark Energy Really Do?

  • 03:51: It's a type Ia or white dwarf supernova.
  • 04:24: When you catch a white dwarf supernova, you know its distance and redshift.
  • 06:03: ... separate teams of astronomers spent years catching white dwarf supernovae exploding in galaxies billions of light years away to measure the past ...
  • 09:19: That's what we see in our white dwarf supernova measurements.
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