Rethinking last century's closest, brightest supernova

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A Luminous Blue Variable star named HD168625 located in our Milky Way Galaxy is surrounded by a bipolar nebula that is similar to the one around SN1987A a supernova that exploded in 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud and was the nearest supernova to ...
A Luminous Blue Variable star named HD168625, located in our Milky Way Galaxy, is surrounded by a bipolar nebula that is similar to the one around SN1987A, a supernova that exploded in 1987 in the Large Magellanic Cloud and was the nearest supernova to Earth in 400 years. (Image credits: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Nathan Smith/UC Berkeley)

Twenty years ago next month, the closest and brightest supernova in four centuries lit up the southern sky, wowing astronomers and the public alike.


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