ExploraTour: A Peek into the Lives of the Stars
Supernova 1987A.
These pictures show a star exploding. The explosion is called a supernova .
The pictures were taken about ten years ago on February 23, 1987. In the first picture you can see the star before the explosion. It is not very bright. In the second picture, you can see the explosion. It is so bright that you could go out and see it in the night sky without a telescope.