Swift observes a supernova explosion in real-time
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 12:14
in Astronomy & Space
UK astronomers are part of an international team that has used the Swift satellite to observe the first moments of a supernova explosion as it happens. The results are presented in a paper in the journal Nature (22 May 2008) led by Dr Alicia Soderberg of Princeton University. This extraordinarily fortunate discovery led to multiple observations with other telescopes and allowed the totality of a supernova explosion to be observed for the first time...
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