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...
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neutrinos from the SN 1987A supernova in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud. These efforts marked the beginning of neutrino astronomy. SN 1987A represents the...
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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...
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Kepler's Supernova (redirect from SN 1604)
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...
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Ian Shelton (section Discovery of Supernova 1987A)
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...
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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...
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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...
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International Ultraviolet Explorer (section SN 1987A)
way interstellar dust absorbs light, and measurements of the supernova SN 1987A which showed that it defied stellar evolution theories as they then stood...
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neutrino-neutrino interactions. The only supernova neutrino event detected so far is SN 1987A. Nevertheless, with current detector sensitivities, it is expected that...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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it was believed that only red supergiants could explode as supernovae. SN 1987A, however, forced astronomers to re-examine this theory, as its progenitor...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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neutron stars and it was uniquely positioned for studies of the Supernova SN 1987A. Furthermore, it supported biotechnology experiments in anti-viral preparations...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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Neil Gehrels (section Balloon Observations of SN 1987A)
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...
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Supernova SN 1987A demonstrated the existence of neutrinos....
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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...
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of rotating 20 M☉ stars predict a peculiar type II supernova similar to SN 1987A from a blue supergiant progenitor. On the other hand, non-rotating 20 M☉...
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belt. Among the most important observations made by Astron were those of SN 1987A supernova from March 4 to March 12, 1987, and of Halley's Comet in December...
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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...
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