New JWST Imagery and Data Suggest Neutron Star As Probable Supernova Remnant at Heart of SNR1987a
Probable Neutron Star Remnant at Heart of SNR1987a
Supernova remnant SNR-1987a
is one of the closest and most studied of any supernova or supernova remnant since Kepler’s supernova in 1604. It was one of the first objects observed with the newly deployed Hubble Space Telescope in 1991 and, thus, the first -and closest supernova- to be observed with a modern observing platform. Although it is named and designated according to the naming conventions for supernovae, its light had been traveling for 171,000 years from the Large Magellanic Cloud, a smaller, satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. Note, this is a new distance based on refined measurements and new data obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope and other sources.
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