When the nearby star exploded, ‘the whole world got excited’
Thirty years ago a handful of people witnessed a rare event, an exploding star known as Supernova 1987A. Our chief program officer of science, renowned astrophysicist and Clowes Research Professor of Science at Harvard, Dr. Robert Kirshner, was one of them. In this Science News article, Dr. Kirshner, and several other scientists, recount their observations and the significance of Supernova 1987A.
In response to the significance of Supernova 1987A and the impact it has on the scientific community Dr. Kirshner commented: “The supernova has gotten dimmer by a factor of 10 million, but we can still study it. We can study it better and over a wider range of light than we could in 1987.”
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