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Do we understand the violent and cosmologically significant stellar explosions known as type-Ia supernovae? Yes and no, as astronomers participating in a conference in California agreed.

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Figure 1: Burn-out.

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  1. Paths to Exploding Stars: Accretion and Explosion, Santa Barbara, California, 19–23 March 2007; http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/snovae_c07

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  1. David Branch is in the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA. branch@nhn.ou.edu,

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  2. Ken'ichi Nomoto is in the Department of Astronomy and the Research Center for the Early Universe, School of Science, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan nomoto@astron.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp,

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