[DOC] [TLE] Closest Type Ia Supernova in Decades Solves a Cosmic Mystery ... [PAR] Dec 14, 2011 ... Its brightness was too faint to be a supernova and too bright to be nova. ... in the 
center so that the white dwarf detonates in a colossal thermonuclear explosion, ... 
for instance, these supernovae are a major source of iron in the universe. ... 
Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NASA's Infrared... [DOC] [TLE] The Weirdest Type Ia Supernova Yet - Lawrence Berkeley National ... [PAR] Sep 20, 2006 ... Image on the left is before maximum brightness; at maximum ... the expansion of 
the universe is accelerating  a finding that would ... will always produce super-
Chandrasekhar explosions in these very young galaxies," Nugent says. ... 
possible using supercomputers, Nugent says, it's possible to study a... [DOC] [TLE] Distant Exploding Stars Foretell Fate Of The Universe: It Will Expand ... [PAR] Jan 13, 1998 ... By the time the light of the most distant supernova explosions so far discovered ... 
Although not all Type Ia supernova have the same brightness, their ... are 
supernovae and measure their redshifts using the Keck telescope, the world's 
largest. ... Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ScienceDaily, 2003. [DOC] [TLE] Super-Old Supernovas Spotted Across the Universe - Space.com [PAR] Oct 5, 2011 ... These stellar explosions created many of the heavy elements in the universe. ... 
By comparing their apparent brightness on the sky with the brightness they ... By 
studying these ancient explosions, the scientists hope to learn more about ... of 
California Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. [DOC] [TLE] Powerful ancient explosions explain new class of supernovae [PAR] Dec 18, 2013 ... These newly discovered supernovae are especially puzzling ... Co-author Daniel 
Kasen from UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab created models of 
... telescopes to study thousands of supernovaethe two supernovae ... in the 
explosion was stretched out by the expansion of the universe... [DOC] [TLE] Very much brighter explosion of stars have been detected far away ... [PAR] Nov 2, 2012 ... These supernovae have stellar explosions of 10 to 100 times ... Simulation of 
super-luminous supernova (Credit: Adrian Malec and Marie Martig (Swinburne ... 
in the early Universe, when there were a large number of massive stars. ... of 
Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the... [DOC] [TLE] Core Concept: Supernovae and the accelerating universe [PAR] Feb 3, 2015 ... Chinese astronomers documented the first stellar explosion in 185 AD, noting it 
as a guest star. ... Such objects, which the researchers dubbed super-novae, ... 
out to use supernovae to study how fast the universe had been expanding .... 
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ScienceDaily, 2011. [DOC] [TLE] Impossible supernova confounds astronomers - physicsworld.com [PAR] Sep 21, 2006 ... These explosions usually have the same brightness and, as a result, serve as '
standard candles' for measuring distances in the Universe. ... of Toronto 
astronomer Andy Howell, lead author of the study, told physicsweb.org. ... in 1998
, by Saul Perlmutter from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and... [DOC] [TLE] "The Supernova of a Generation" --Last August's Discovery in the ... [PAR] Apr 5, 2012 ... Seeing one explode so close by allows us to study these events in ... 
Astronomers believe they caught the supernova within hours of its explosion, a 
rare feat made possible with a ... Astronomers at Lawrence Berkeley National 
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC ... PTF 11kly is getting brighter by the minute. [DOC] [TLE] Supernova twins: Making standard candles more standard than ever [PAR] Nov 5, 2015 ... Less than 20 years ago the world learned that the universe is ... of Energy's 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have ... The distance to 
these supernovae can be measured about twice as accurately as before. ... 
spectra and brightnessof numerous nearby Type Ia's, collected using the... [DOC] [TLE] Supernova | physics4me | Page 3 [PAR] This new observation builds upon the revolutionary research using Hubble that 
... Early close-ups of a Type Ia supernova allow Berkeley Lab scientists and

Question: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is studying the universe through the brightness of these "super" explosions
Answer: supernovas