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This document summarizes the history of how supernovae became the basis of observational cosmology. It discusses how in the 1970s, Bert Woodard Rust and Yury Pavlovich Pskovskii independently discovered a relationship between the peak luminosity of Type Ia supernovae and their rate of decline after maximum brightness using a limited sample. Later, Mark Phillips was able to confirm their findings more accurately using improved supernova samples and CCD cameras. Supernovae are now used as standard candles to
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- romy
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