Fast Supernovae Detection using Neural Networks

A guest post by Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis & The ALeRCE Collaboration, Millennium Institute of Astrophysics, Chile IntroductionAstronomy is the study of celestial objects, such as stars, galaxies or black holes. Studying celestial objects is a bit like having a natural physics laboratory - where the most extreme processes in nature occur - and most of them cannot be reproduced here on Earth.