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Supernova 1987A

SN-1987A · supernova · Common

Supernova 1987A

It went off in a neighbour galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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Supernova 1987A, photographed by Hubble Space Telescope
NASA, ESA and Pete Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) · CC BY 4.0

Record

SN 1987A · LMC
Object
supernova
Rarity
Common
RA
05:35:30.84
Dec
-69:16:11.28
DISTANCE
~168,000 ly
SEEN
23 Feb 1987
NEUTRINOS
~25 caught
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