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...first bright supernova since Harvard was founded," said Professor Of Astronomy Robert P. Kirshner '70, who studying ultraviolet (UV) light emitted form the bright supernova. The most recent supernova observable from Earth with the naked...
Kirshner, who has already travelled to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center several times to collect data from a UV-detecting satellite, said he hopes to discover evidence which would support current theories on supernova evolution...
...Supernova can also be used to measure the size and age of the universe, Kirshner said...
...This supernova, called 1987A, is so close to our galaxy that "we've detected things other than light being given off" for the first time, Huchra said...
...When a massive star's core collapses in a supernova, the energy is partially emitted in neutrinos [according totheory]," Kirshner said. Although this idea hasbeen written about in astronomy texts for years,"now, we have actually observed [the particles],"he said...