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How to use Type Ia Supernova Standard Candle 3D Explorer
- Open the Type Ia Supernova Standard Candle 3D Explorer and wait for the canvas to paint.
- Drag to orbit the view and scroll to zoom in on the white dwarf and its red-giant donor.
- Scrub the sequence slider from 0 to 70 to grow the white dwarf's mass toward the Chandrasekhar limit.
- Keep scrubbing past 70 to watch the explosion and the fading light-curve readout.
- Move the distance slider to see the apparent magnitude the facts panel computes at that distance.
Need timing tips? See when to use. Comparing apps? See vs alternatives.
Companion guide for the Type Ia Supernova Standard Candle 3D Explorer. This page sits alongside the when-to-use guide and the comparison against alternatives, so you can move between control instructions, timing guidance, and the numbers table without leaving the guide set.
The explorer itself runs entirely client-side in the browser with the vendored three.js engine - no account, no install, and no scene data leaves your device. For the wider picture, the Space 3D collection also has a White Dwarf Chandrasekhar Limit explorer for the bare mass limit and a Cosmic Distance Ladder for how this method fits among the other rungs.
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