2020.11.04

Supernova Slice

A door-sized experiment models massive stellar blasts

In this ultraviolet view of the Cygnus Loop Nebula, filaments of gas and dust remain after a supernova explosion more than 5,000 years earlier. / NASA, JPL AND CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

In this ultraviolet view of the Cygnus Loop Nebula, filaments of gas and dust remain after a supernova explosion more than 5,000 years earlier. / NASA, JPL AND CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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