Wednesday, March 21, 2012

APOD 3.6


There was a supernova in 1987. It was the brightest recorded supernova in recent history and it was located in the Magellanic cloud. Through telescope the amount of energy released in this explosion allowed us to capture the remnats from the violent transition. However there are rings that are a mystery as to how they formed. The make a figure 8 around the explosion. A possible theory is that these are beamed jets emmited from a hidden neuron star

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