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SN 1987A was a type II supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It occurred approximately 51.4 kiloparsecs (168,000 light-years ) [ a ] from Earth and was the closest observed supernova since Kepler's Supernova in 1604.
The classic example of a Type IIb supernova is SN 1993J, [41] [42] while another example is Cassiopeia A. [43] The IIb class was first introduced (as a theoretical concept) by Woosley et al. in 1987, [44] and the class was soon applied to SN 1987K [45] and SN 1993J. [46]
It was the progenitor of supernova 1987A. The star was originally charted by the Romanian-American astronomer Nicholas Sanduleak in 1970, but was not well studied until identified as the star that exploded in the first naked eye supernova since the invention of the telescope, [1] when its maximum reached visual magnitude +2.8. [3]
Ian Keith Shelton (born 30 March 1957) is a Canadian astronomer who discovered SN 1987A, the first modern supernova close and bright enough to be visible to the naked eye. Born in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada, Shelton received his B.Sc. in 1979 from the University of Manitoba and in 1981 began his professional career working as Resident ...
MACHO 80.7443.1718 is a binary star in the LH 58 association in the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the constellation of Dorado, first identified among about 800 stars in 1994. [3] It consists of a 35 M ☉ blue supergiant in an eccentric orbit with a secondary companion that cannot be observed directly, but is likely an O-type main-sequence star of ...
El Dorado is a 1966 American Western film directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum.Written by Leigh Brackett and loosely based on the novel The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown, the film is about a gunfighter who comes to the aid of an old friend who is a drunken sheriff struggling to defend a rancher and his family against another rancher trying to ...
Three Russian sailors have found themselves stranded aboard a fishing trawler off the coast of Chimbote, a port city in Peru.The ship's owner's company has gone bankrupt, and the crew has abandoned the vessel, leaving Krystof, his younger brother, and the skipper without the resources to return home.
A Faithful Soldier of Pancho Villa (Spanish: Un dorado de Pancho Villa) is a 1967 Mexican drama film written, directed by and starring Emilio Fernández. It was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival .