Phil Plait:

Astronomers have found excellent evidence of a NEUTRON STAR at the center of the Supernova 1987A maelstrom!

This is A Big Deal™.

In late February 1987 — in fact, last week was the anniversary; the release of this news was well timed — the light from brightest supernova in four centuries reached Earth. Dubbed Supernova 1987A, or just 87A to its friends, it was actually spotted by astronomer Ian Shelton by naked eye! The stellar explosion occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy very close to the Milky Way, just about 170,000 light-years away from the Sun.

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