August 3, 2012
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)
A group of researchers including Masaomi Tanaka (NAOJ, previously a researcher at IPMU), Koji Kawabata (Hiroshima Univ.), Takashi Hattori (NAOJ), Keiichi Maeda (Kavli IPMU) and Ken'ichi Nomoto (Kavli IPMU) have reported that supernova explosions show a clumpy structure, as observed by the Subaru Telescope.
The study will advance our understanding of the supernova explosion mechanism, that has been a mystery for more than half a century.
These study results has been published in The Astrophysical Journal July 20, 2012 issue.
Full Story: Subaru Telescope/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)