Turning off the lights: Supernova SN1987A 30 years on
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-08-03 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
Decades-long repeat observations of supernova SN1987A offer us unique, real-time insights into the violent death of a massive star and its long-term environmental effects, until its eventual switch-off.
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@article{arxiv.1507.08770,
title = {Turning off the lights: Supernova SN1987A 30 years on},
author = {Richard de Grijs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.08770},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Invited "News and Views" article, Nature Physics, August 2015; 2 pages, 1 figure