- Source: SN 2006X
SN 2006X was a Type Ia supernova about 65 million light-years away in Messier 100, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices. The supernova was independently discovered in early February 2006 by Shoji Suzuki of Japan and Marco Migliardi of Italy.
SN 2006X is particularly significant because it is a Type Ia supernova. These supernovae are used for measuring distances, so observations of these supernovae in nearby galaxies are needed for calibration. SN 2006X is located in a well-studied galaxy, and it was discovered two weeks before its peak brightness, so it may be extraordinarily useful for understanding supernovae and for calibrating supernovae for distance measurements. It may even be possible to identify the progenitor of this supernova.
References
External links
Light curves and spectra Archived 2017-10-23 at the Wayback Machine on the Open Supernova Catalog Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
Supernova 2006X in M100
Brightness measures for SN 2006X
NASA page with images of SN 2006X
Large collection of SN 2006X images
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Messier 100
- SN 2006X
- Messier 100
- SN 2023rve
- SN 2003B
- Coma Berenices
- Malin 1
- Coma Star Cluster
- Visible Multi Object Spectrograph
- GRB 050509B
- IOK-1
