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Supernova cosmology

Recent observational data on large, red-shift supernovae have led to a cosmological model depicting an accelerating expansion of the universe, with a significant amount of ‘dark matter’ and ‘dark energy’

A Type Ia supernova remnant around 5 kpc away in the Milky Way galaxy

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High red shift observations of supernova have been used as standard candles to provide evidence for an expanding and accelerating universe of 5% matter, 25% dark matter and 70% dark energy, which are now included in the standard model of cosmology.

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