Thursday, May 29, 2008

Supernova in space

A supernova was captured by scientists observing some stars. A supernova is an explosion of a star. While not really able to watch the star explode, it was the x-rays given out that gave clues of an explosion. The star belongs to a distant galaxy NGC2770. A miracle we could even peek out that far into the void. If you are interested in this article here is the link. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/05/21/star.explosion.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText

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