SN 1996cr

SN 1996cr is located about 25" South of the nucleus of the Circinus Galaxy.

For more information see

• Chandra 2008 Press Release
• "Supernova 1996cr: SN 1987A's Wild Cousin?" by Bauer et al., ApJ (2008).
• "Bursting SN 1996cr's bubble: hydrodynamic and X-ray modelling of its circumstellar medium" by Dwarkadas, Dewey & Bauer, MNRAS (2010).