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Article: Neutrino astronomy born in a supernova.
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- Science News
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- March 21, 1987
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Neutrino Astronomy Born in a Supernova
"It's just a neutrino high, just wonderful,'says John Bahcall of Princeton (N.J.) University's Institute for Advanced Study.
"For me this is a kind of culmination of20 years of work,' says Alfred Mann of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
"We've been waiting 25 years for this,'says Frederick W. Reines of the University of California at Irvine.
They are talking about the detection ofneutrinos from the supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud (SN: 3/14/87, p.165). This appears to be the definitive finding of neutrinos from the supernova. United in the simultaneous detection are ...