Supernova Remnant 1987A: Opening the Future by Reaching the Past

Sangwook Park, Svetozar A. Zhekov, David N. Burrows +1

We report an up-turn in the soft X-ray light curve of supernova remnant (SNR) 1987A in late 2003 (~6200 days after the explosion), as observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. S…