http://spaceinfo.com.au/2012/01/03/giant-star-jet-astounds-astronomers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=giant-star-jet-astounds-astronomers Space and Astronomy news daily Thu, 17 May 2012 07:03:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://spaceinfo.com.au/2012/01/03/giant-star-jet-astounds-astronomers/comment-page-1/#comment-1367 Jonathan Nally Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:42:55 +0000 http://spaceinfo.com.au/?p=6656#comment-1367 Hi Michal, Nicholas Sanduleak was a US astronomer who did lots of work on star surveys, including producing groundbreaking catalogues of stars in the Small and Large Magellanic Cloud galaxies, which are neighbours of the Milky Way. So yes, one of the stars in his catalogue was the progenitor of SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). But "Sanduleak's star", although also in the LMC, is a different one. It has another, weirder, name too -- LMC Anonymous! More (technical) info here: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989ApJ...341..367M http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/743/1/L8;jsessionid=AE727DB9B479B972041DC4E570811AF3.c1 Cheers, Jonathan Hi Michal,
Nicholas Sanduleak was a US astronomer who did lots of work on star surveys, including producing groundbreaking catalogues of stars in the Small and Large Magellanic Cloud galaxies, which are neighbours of the Milky Way. So yes, one of the stars in his catalogue was the progenitor of SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). But “Sanduleak’s star”, although also in the LMC, is a different one. It has another, weirder, name too — LMC Anonymous! More (technical) info here: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1989ApJ…341..367M
http://iopscience.iop.org/2041-8205/743/1/L8;jsessionid=AE727DB9B479B972041DC4E570811AF3.c1
Cheers,
Jonathan

]]> http://spaceinfo.com.au/2012/01/03/giant-star-jet-astounds-astronomers/comment-page-1/#comment-1366 Michal Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:10:38 +0000 http://spaceinfo.com.au/?p=6656#comment-1366 I'm a little confused. I thought that "Sanduleak's star" (Sanduleak -69° 202) was responsible for SN 1987A but that obviously must be a different star. I’m a little confused. I thought that “Sanduleak’s star” (Sanduleak -69° 202) was responsible for SN 1987A but that obviously must be a different star.

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