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Thank you to everyone who has contributed this week to this supernovae host dataset! Together, 33,000 classifications contributed to a total of 5000+ subjects! Which happened much much faster than we could have ever anticipated! Preliminary results are posted HERE.
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"Galaxy mergers are a unique and poorly understood cosmic environment. We need your help to learn how they might be shaped by supernova explosions"
- Inoa Martinez, University of Hawaiʻi
About Supernova Host Herding
Supernovae are events that occur towards the end of a stars life cycle. There are many different types of supernovae that occur depending on the conditions of the star. What is less known is how the galaxies that host the supernova affect things like where the supernova occurs or maybe the type of supernova. Vice versa, the supernova can also possibly affect the galaxy on a smaller scale by decreasing how quickly new stars are formed.
All the images that you see are a snapshot in time before these supernovae occur. We want to try and figure out if there is anything interesting about the galaxies or systems of galaxies that these supernovae occur in.
All image data was provided by the Pan-STARRS telescopes located on Haleakalā. See here for more information on the Pan-STARRS telescopes.
This project was made with the help of the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy.
We are grateful for support from the National Science Foundation (AST-2510993) and the Akamai Workforce Initiative.