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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…
An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova.…
For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar activity…
NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in…
Forty million years ago, a star in a nearby galaxy exploded, spewing material across space and generating a brilliant beacon…
The main image at left shows a combined Webb and Hubble view of spiral galaxy NGC 1637. Panels at right…
![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)
