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April 23, 1990

Supernova 1987a: Cosmic Fireworks

Dr. Alex Filippenko
University of California at Berkeley

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkeley will discuss the brightest supernova seen in nearly 400 years and the many ways in which it has influenced our understanding of stellar death, nucleosynthesis, and the formation of neutron stars.