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Life, the universe, and everything with Nobel laureate physicist Saul Perlmutter

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Exploding Stars Supernova - What Did You Find?

In the mid to late 80s, scientists started looking for exploding stars supernova. They used them to map out the history of the expansion of the universe with computer programs. If they were really lucky, they would have found a type 1A supernova that was almost always the same brightness. That could allow them to measure whether or not it was slowing enough to come to a halt and collapse.

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