Steinn Sigurðsson
Professor of Astrophysics at Pennsylvania State University. Science Editor at Astrophysical Journal. Icelandic. Herder of Cats.
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June 8, 2006
Spitzer has an interesting press release...
Dusty SN2003gd
The Spitzer infrared space observatory recently did followup imaging of a type II supernova in the nearby spiral galaxy M74.
Type II supernovae occur when a short lived massive star (> 8 times the mass of the Sun, or so) exhaust the…