Monday, December 29, 2008

Supernova 1987a Aftermath


June 21 1995

Picture Credit: Hubble Space Telescope

Explanation: In 1987 a star in one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies exploded. In 1994 the Hubble Space Telescope, in orbit around the earth, took a very detailed picture of the remnants of this explosion. This picture, above, showed unusual and unexpected rings, and astronomers are not sure how they formed.

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