Supernova Remnants
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NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has resumed operating two of its three science instruments, following the scaling back of a…
A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar…
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant in an intriguing neighborhood in the…
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, seen here in…
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in…
A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look…
This 2024 image that NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured of the Crab Nebula, paired with its past observations and those…
This newly processed image of the Crab Nebula comes from data originally captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 1999…
![The images indicate that the bubble of gas that makes up the supernova remnant appears different in various types of light. Chandra reveals the hottest gas [colored blue and colored green], which radiates in X-rays.](http://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/PIA06908/PIA06908~small.jpg)
