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...

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...

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 at night. Evidence...

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...

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 Japanese...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

second-brightest type II supernova observed in the twentieth century behind SN 1987A, peaking at a visible apparent magnitude of 10.7 on March 30, with a second...

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...

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...

Neutrinos generated by a supernova were observed in the case of Supernova 1987A, leading astrophysicists to conclude that the core collapse picture is basically...

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...

spectra and emission half life). A classic example is that of supernova SN 1987A, which emits an "afterglow" of gamma-ray photons from the decay of newly...

Laboratory SLOWPOKE reactor SMART-1 SNO+ SNOLAB SNUPPS SN 1006 SN 1987A SN 2002cx SN 2003fg SN 2005gj SN 2007bi SO(10) (physics) SOFAR channel SOLEIL SPEAR...

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...

(IAU) has designated it SN 2014J. SN 1993J was also at relatively close distance, in M82's larger companion galaxy M81. SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic...

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

from the side. This also explains the "double-ring" structure seen in SN 1987A. A series of faint spokes radiate from the center of the structure. One...

history. The Large Magellanic Cloud was the host galaxy to a supernova (SN 1987A), the brightest observed in over four centuries. Measurements with the...

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...