Star undergoing supernova?
NZPA-AP Los Angeles What appears to be a star undergoing the early stages of a supernova in a nearby galaxy was discovered on Tuesday by astronomers in Chile and New Zealand, an astronomy reporting agency said. “We don’t know for sure if it is a supernova, but it seems that way,” said Mr Daniel Green, an astronomer at the Smith-
sonian Institution's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "At this stage it is probable,” he said.
The apparent supernova, a rapidly brightening, gargantuan explosion of a star, is being called Supernova 1987 A. It Is located near the constellation, Doradus, in the Large Magellanic Cloud,
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