Where the heck is the neutron star that should be in the middle of the debris from Supernova 1987A?
It's one of the bigger mysteries of modern astronomical times. On the night of February 23/24, 1987 (essentially 34 years ago today, so happy anniversary!) the light from an exploding star reached Earth. Dubbed Supernova 1987A, it came from the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way just 160,000 light years away. That's close enough that the supernova was visible to the naked...
Published on February 24, 2021 06:00