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October 2, 1989

Discovery of the Optical Pulsar in Supernova 1987a

Dr. Carl Pennypacker
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Carl Pennypacker of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory will describe recent observations of the rotating neutron star inside the Large Magellenic Cloud supernova remnant and will discuss the implications of these unprecedented observations for nuclear physics and astrophysics.