Govinda Dhungana

The Asian news wire service Asian News International has covered the SMU Physics Department's recent supernovae discoveries. The article, "Exploding stars offer clues to dark energy," was published Feb. 28. Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova by SMU graduate students in the physics department. Both supernovae were spotted with the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment's robotic telescope ROTSE3b, at the McDonald Observatory in West Texas.

The news web site redOrbit has covered the SMU Physics Department's recent supernovae discoveries. The article was published Feb. 27. Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova. Both supernovae were spotted with the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment's robotic telescope ROTSE3b, which is now operated by SMU graduate students.