The triple-ring nebula around SN 1987A: fingerprint of a binary merger.
Supernova 1987A, the first naked-eye supernova observed since Kepler's supernova in 1604, defies a number of theoretical expectations. Its anomalies have long been attributed to a merger between two massive stars that occurred some 20,000 years before the explosion, but so far there has been no...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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