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About 200 thousand light-years away, near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a five million years young star cluster dazzles with bright, blue, newly formed stars. "Inside the star cluster, bright, blue, newly formed stars are blowing a cavity in this nebula, sculpting the inner edge of its outer portions, slowly eroding it away and eating into the material
'Travelling Back in Time' Can Help Us Calculate How Old Supernovas Are FOLLOW US ON: While time-travel, as shown in fiction, isn’t a reality, looking back in time to discover the secrets of the universe can be done. Astronomers at NASA are doing a similar thing. According to the space agency, they “winding back the clock” to discover how and when a star blasted. The star in question exploded in the Small Magellanic Cloud a very long time ago. As you can guess, a stellar detonation is much like a bomb explosion. It leaves behind a trace like an expanding, gaseous corpse, a supernova. The...
Hubble Pinpoints Supernova Blast Featured in this Hubble image is an expanding, gaseous corpse — a supernova remnant — known as 1E 0102.2-7219. It is the remnant of a star that exploded long ago in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way located roughly 200 000 light-years away. Because the gaseous knots in this supernova remnant are moving at different speeds and directions from the supernova explosion, those moving toward Earth are colored blue in this composition and the ones moving away are shown in red. This new Hubble image shows these ribbons of gas speeding...
Last Updated: 'How Old Are Supernovas?': NASA Astronomers Rewind Clock To Estimate Star Explosion Age “The victim is a star that exploded long ago in Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way," NASA astronomers studying supernova's age said. Researchers at NASA are rewinding the clock to calculate the age of the Supernova blast. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an explosion of a nearby star, scientists are now trying to calculate an accurate estimate of the location and time of the stellar detonation. According to a release by NASA, “The victim is a star that ...
E-Mail IMAGE: This Hubble Space Telescope portrait reveals the gaseous remains of an exploded massive star that erupted approximately 1,700 years ago. The stellar corpse, a supernova remnant named 1E 0102.2-7219, met... view more Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University) Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star. By using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, they retraced the speedy shrapnel from the blast to calculate a more accurate estimate of the location and time of the stellar detonation. T...