17 Result(s)

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Being around at the death

Harm Habing, Paul Murdin in Nature (1993)

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Supernovae can't be typecast

Paul Murdin in Nature (1993)

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Pulsar seen in SN1987A remnant?

Optical pulsations may have been detected from the region of the Magellanic Cloud supernova SN1987A by astronomers in Brazil. If confirmed, the observations probably presage pulsed X-ray emission.

Paul Murdin in Nature (1990)

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The parent and its environs

Paul Murdin in Nature (1987)

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Eiffel Tower threatens top astronomy

A French company's understandable pride in having built a conspicuous structure in Paris nearly a century ago may persuade it to ruin optical astronomy for several years to come.

Paul Murdin in Nature (1987)

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Halo around the Crab Nebula

It has been argued¹ that the supernova of AD 1054 which left the Crab Nebula supernova remnant was of Type II. Such super-novae occur in the spiral arms of galaxies and are believed to have initial masses of >4M_⊙

Paul Murdin, David H. Clark in Nature (1981)

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Peculiar optical spectrum of the Red Rectangle

The Red Rectangle¹ is a nebula centred on the star HD44179. Within an amorphous blue nebula is embedded a hollow biconical red nebula with apex at the star. The generators of the hollow bicone show in projection ...

R. F. Warren-Smith, S. M. Scarrott, Paul Murdin in Nature (1981)

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An unusual emission-line star/X-ray source/radio star, possibly associated with an SNR

A STAR with an unusual emission-line spectrum is described here which is associated with a variable point radio source, and possibly also with a variable X-ray source and the radio supernova remnant (SNR) W50 ...

DAVID H. CLARK, PAUL MURDIN in Nature (1978)

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Pulsed and unpulsed light from the Vela and Crab pulsars

OBSERVATIONS of the Vela and Crab pulsars were made with the Image Photon Counting System¹ (IPCS) at the ƒ/15 focus of the 3.9 m Anglo–Australian Telescope (AAT), on 9 and 10 March 1978. Observations of the unpul...

BRUCE A. PETERSON, PAUL MURDIN, PATRICK WALLACE, R. N. MANCHESTER, A. J. PENNY… in Nature (1978)

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Cygnus X-1—a Spectroscopic Binary with a Heavy Companion ?

WE have reported¹ that the spectrum, colours and interstellar features in the star HD 226868, which is coincident with the X-ray star Cygnus X-1 and a radio star^2,3, were those of a normal BOIb supergiant. We mad...

B. LOUISE WEBSTER, PAUL MURDIN in Nature (1972)