SN 1987A was a type II supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It occurred approximately 51.4 kiloparsecs (168...

many others outside the galaxy have been seen since S Andromedae in 1885. SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud was visible to the naked eye. Evidence exists...

neutrino-neutrino interactions. The only supernova neutrino event detected so far is SN 1987A. Nevertheless, with current detector sensitivities, it is expected that...

modern astronomical telescopes. The most recent naked-eye supernova was SN 1987A, which was the explosion of a blue supergiant star in the Large Magellanic...

neutrinos from the SN 1987A supernova in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud. These efforts marked the beginning of neutrino astronomy. SN 1987A represents the...

Keith Shelton (born 30 March 1957) is a Canadian astronomer who discovered SN 1987A, the first modern supernova close and bright enough to be visible to the...

its peak the SN 2006gy supernova was intrinsically 400 times as luminous as SN 1987A, which was bright enough to be seen by the naked eye, SN 2006gy was...

SN 2004dj was the brightest supernova since SN 1987A at the time of its discovery.[citation needed] This Type II-P supernova was discovered by Koichi Itagaki...

speed. One of the best observed young supernova remnants was formed by SN 1987A, a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud that was observed in February...

Magnitude for 2011 Archived 2023-05-30 at the Wayback Machine (David Bishop) SN 1987A Supernova Discovered in Nearby Spiral Galaxy M101, Astronomy Picture of...

way interstellar dust absorbs light, and measurements of the supernova SN 1987A which showed that it defied stellar evolution theories as they then stood...

for Observations of Nucleosynthetic Gamma-Ray Lines and Continuum from SN 1987A", N. Gehrels, C.J. MacCallum and M. Leventhal, ApJ, 320, L19. 1986, "Confidence...

the action of MSW dynamics on SN neutrinos. Some effect of MSW flavor conversion has already been observed in SN 1987A. In the case of normal neutrino...

it was believed that only red supergiants could explode as supernovae. SN 1987A, however, forced astronomers to re-examine this theory, as its progenitor...

hypothesis by observing SN 1987a with the naked eye. The Kamiokande experiment, in Japan, independently observed neutrinos from SN 1987a at the same time. Judson...

79 PSR B1620−26 b 3C 58 Cas X-1 GW170817 Cygnus loop Spaghetti Nebula SN 1987A Jellyfish nebula Stellar designations and names Heger, A.; Fryer, C. L...

Bibcode:1970CoTol..89.....S. Smith, N. (2007). "Discovery of a Nearby Twin of SN 1987A's Nebula around the Luminous Blue Variable HD 168625: Was Sk -69 202 an...

gravitational interactions with the larger Milky Way. In 1987, it became host to SN 1987A, the first supernova of 1987 and the closest since 1604. This 25,000-light-year-wide...

astronomy at the University of Virginia in 1995 with a thesis on supernova SN 1987A, which he studied with the Supernova Intensive Study (SINS). During the...

cosmic rays are identified as forming in solar flares. 1987: Supernova SN 1987A emitted neutrinos that were detected at the Kamiokande-II, IMB and Baksan...

supernovae SN 2006gy, SN 2005gj and SN 2005ap also suggest the existence of quark stars. It has been suggested that the collapsed core of supernova SN 1987A may...

was in 1936, but it was not studied in detail. An example is supernova SN 1987A, the closest supernova in modern times. Its light echoes have aided in...

Supernova SN 1987A demonstrated the existence of neutrinos....

are based on atmospheric modeling and the measured radiation flux from SN 1987A, a Type II supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Estimates of the rate...

its abundance. It was observed in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant and SN 1987A at a relatively high concentration, a consequence of delayed decay resulting...

it was the second-brightest supernova of any kind (fainter only than SN 1987A) of the 20th century. It was observed for nearly 700 days, and it became...

energy. For example, the observed light curves of supernova stars such as SN 1987A show them blasting large amounts (comparable to the mass of Earth) of radioactive...

remnants Lists of astronomical objects Modern estimates vary widely; see SN 185 for more detail. Ksenofontov, L. T.; Berezhko, E. G.; Völk, H. J. (2005-04-01)...

has been confirmed by observation of bolometric light decay curves for SN 1987A. Between 600 and 800 days after SN1987A occurred, the bolometric light...

greater fame through neutrino observation, particularly those from Supernova SN 1987A. IMB consisted of a roughly cubical tank about 17 × 17.5 × 23 meters, filled...