From 06 Jan. to 10 Jan., the 5th Scientific Writing School for Young Astronomers (http://swya5.csp.escience.cn/) was successfully held at the Phoenix Mountain campus of Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, jointly sponsored by A...

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) play an important role in the studies of stellar evolution (especially for binary evolution), galaxy evolution and cosmology. At the end of the last century, scientists found that the Universe is expanding in an ac...