This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud Scientists believe they've finally tracked down the dead remnant from Supernova 1987A - one of their ...
A previous supernova, called supernova 1987A, occurred in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud. A gamma ray telescope was observing the supernova, but it wasn't ...
designated supernova 1987A, erupting within the Large Magellanic Cloud in 1987. If the researchers are correct, the search for dark matter, which has troubled astronomers for decades, could be ...
This infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope, released by NASA on Aug. 31, 2023, shows internal details of the evolving supernova 1987a that have never been observed in the visible spectrum ...
Its life ended in spectacular style in a process called a supernova, prosaically called SN 1987A, by astronomers. It was the first supernova to have been visible to the naked eye for 400 years ...
so SN 1987A presented astronomers with a rare opportunity to study the phases before, during and after the death of a star. There’s been nothing that close since. In fact, a supernova hasn’t ...
Around 168,000 years ago, a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud exploded in a spectacular Type II supernova. The light from this event reached Earth in early 1987, and the explosion was bright ...