On supernovae and serendipity (7 Oct 2014)
Автор: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures
Загружено: 2014-10-14
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Dr Steve Fossey, UCL Physics and Astronomy
Thermonuclear supernovae signal the sudden and explosive destruction of a white-dwarf star, but rarely occur in our cosmic neighbourhood. However in January 2014 such a supernova appeared in a nearby galaxy, and was discovered in UCL’s teaching observatory. This is the story of that serendipitous discovery and some early results on the nature of these cosmologically significant events.
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