Combination of a Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1987A and the compact argon source ... and right of the inner ring are unrelated to the supernova.

A research team at the , Academia Sinica (ASIAA) has achieved groundbreaking insights into the physics of supernova ...

SN 1987A, which occurred about 168,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), was first spotted in late February 1987. It was the closest visible supernova in almost 400 years ...

Abstract: Several weeks after the explosion of supernova (SN) 1987A, the UV flash of the SN illuminated a ring-like structure in the circumstellar material at about 0.65 ly from the SN. The ...