Supernova 1987A is roughly 168,000 light-years away from Earth and located in the Large Magellanic Cloud–a satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way.

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Supernova 1987A represents the remains of an exploded star that once had a mass around 8 to 10 times that of the sun. It is located around 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a ...

Supernova 1987A is among the most famous stellar explosions because it's relatively close to Earth at 163,000 light years away, and its light reached Earth at a time when sophisticated ...

Newly detected dust found around the burst remains of a dead star could help reveal how planets and stars formed and how life began.

If astronomers could catch bursts of gamma rays from supernova explosions that create neutron stars near the Milky Way, the mystery of dark matter could be wrapped up in 10 seconds.

The supernova became known as SN 1987A, and its light did not stop at Earth. It kept going, deeper and deeper into our galaxy where other alien life might catch a glimpse.

In the study, the team looked at Supernova (SN) 1987A. This well known supernova occurred 160,000 light-years from Earth in a region called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Supernova 1987A, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbouring dwarf galaxy, was the nearest, brightest supernova seen in the night sky in 400 years.

Supernova 1987A – located in a neighbouring dwarf galaxy – has been observed for more than three decades. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

A supernova is an explosion that is part of the stellar evolution of certain kinds of stars. The remnants of Supernova 1987A, which exploded in 1987, has a “string of pearls” formed by clumps of ...

Supernova 1987A could have left behind a pulsar, a highly magnetized neutron star that generates powerful beams of radiation, much like the one found in the much closer Crab Nebula, ...