Anne’s Image of the Day: Supernova remnant G1.9+0.3

By Annelies Rhemrev October 21, 2012 G1.9+0.3, the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Image Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/NCSU/S.Reynolds et al.); Radio (NSF/NRAO/VLA/Cambridge/D.Green et al.); Infrared (2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF/CfA/E.Bressert) For [...]

Yellow Supergiant Became a Supernova

By Annelies Rhemrev A group of researchers led by Melina Bersten (Kavli IPMU) has presented evidence that the yellow supergiant (YSG) star found at the location of supernova SN 2011dh in the famous nearby galaxy M51 (the Whirlpool Galaxy) was [...]