Today my astronomy cross stitch is a special one- Figure 1 from my paper on radio observations of SN 1987A!

Don’t believe me? Here’s the paper if you want to compare: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02364 ">https://arxiv.org/abs/1809....

It is all completely accurate, right down to the coords, intensity scale, even the beam model (resolution). Here’s a close up!

SN 1987A is an amazing object btw! Closest SN to us since the invention of the telescope, we’ve been watching the shockwave interact w its environment ever since. Here’s a gif I made of all these images, 1992-2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-3BEnioClU&t=2s">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

This was the first paper I did together with my adviser @SciBry, so I made this as a gift for him when I submitted my PhD. You can read more about it from this thread at the time (plus see what I made my other adviser, @mrdrout): https://twitter.com/whereisyvette/status/1134170275212341248?s=20">https://twitter.com/whereisyv...