After the Kepler supernova explosion, no survivors were left behind

01/08/2018
The Kepler supernova, of which currently only the supernova remnant remains, took place in the constellation of Ophiuchus, in the plane of the Milky Way, 16,300 light years from the Sun. An international team, led by the researcher Pilar Ruiz Lapuente (UB-IECC y CSIC), in which Jonay González Hernández, postdoctoral researcher Severo Ochoa during the period 2012-2015 participates, has tried to find the possible surviving star of the binary system in which the explosion took place. >> Read more