{"id":181282,"date":"2024-01-24T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/astronomers-inspect-evolution-of-a-nearby-type-ia-supernova"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:26:51","slug":"astronomers-inspect-evolution-of-a-nearby-type-ia-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/astronomers-inspect-evolution-of-a-nearby-type-ia-supernova","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers inspect evolution of a nearby Type Ia supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-inspect-evolution-of-a-nearby-type-ia-supernova2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using various ground-based telescopes, astronomers have performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a nearby Type Ia supernova known as SN 2020nlb. Results of the observations campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2401.08759\">presented<\/a> January 16 on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>, deliver important insights regarding the evolution of this stellar explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) are found in binary systems in which one of the stars is a white dwarf. Stellar explosions of this type are important for the scientific community, as they offer essential clues into the evolution of stars and galaxies.<\/p>\n<p>SN 2020nlb was detected on June 25, 2020 with the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), shortly after its explosion in the lenticular galaxy Messier 85 (or M85 for short), located some 60 million <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+years\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light years<\/a> away. Spectroscopic observations of SN 2020nlb, commenced shortly after its detection, confirmed that it is a Type Ia <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/supernova\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">supernova<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using various ground-based telescopes, astronomers have performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a nearby Type Ia supernova known as SN 2020nlb. Results of the observations campaign, presented January 16 on the pre-print server arXiv, deliver important insights regarding the evolution of this stellar explosion. Type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) are found in binary systems in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}