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[Interview+] We Don't See Supernovae In The Milky Way. Nobody Knows Why

[Interview+] We Don't See Supernovae In The Milky Way. Nobody Knows Why

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🟣 Guest: Dr. John Banovetz https://www.bnl.gov/world/

📜 Uncovering the Next Galactic Supernova with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.12094

We should be getting 1-2 supernovae per century in a galaxy like the Milky Way. Yet, the last one observed was about 1000 years ago? Where are all the galactic supernovae? Why don't we see enough of them. Can Vera Rubin help? Finding out in this interview.

  • 00:00 Intro

  • 01:41 Supernovae in the Milky Way

  • 09:33 Why don't we see the supernovae

  • 13:32 Vera Rubin 24:37 Working with the data pipeline

  • 39:10 Current obsessions

  • 41:08 Final thoughts

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