Science news articles about 'nearby supernova'

... ,000 light years from Earth. "This supernova appears to be a wild cousin of SN 1987A," said Bauer. ... compelling target for future work because it is nearby and so much brighter than a typical supernova ...

... Research and Education Network (HPWREN), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Nearby Supernova Factory research group at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory reported the co-discovery of ...

... the star cluster NGC 2074 (upper, left). The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies about 170 000 light-years away ...

... SNfactory, says, "This is an example of exactly what we designed the Nearby Supernova Factory to do. Stephen's agnostic ... enough high-quality full spectra of distant Type Ia supernovae – a set comparable ...

... where they originated from. The presence of the radioactive nuclei has been previously linked to a nearby supernova explosion, but we are showing now that these nuclei are more compatible with an ...

... thought to have been triggered by shock waves that emanated from the explosion of a nearby supernova. The supernova injected radioactive material such as Aluminium-26 into the primordial solar system ...