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Gigantic Supernova Remnant Lurking in Space Is Largest Discovery of Its Kind – ScienceAlert

It’s amazing what can be lurking out there in space, hidden by the limitations of our eyes, our technology, and our preconceptions.

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It’s amazing what can be lurking out there in space, hidden by the limitations of our eyes, our technology, and our preconceptions.
Astronomers have only just found an absolutely colossal supernova remnant, an expanding cloud of dust and gas left over from a stellar explosion, taking up an area of the sky nearly 100 times that of the full Moon (from our perspective), at a maximum distance of 4,000 light-years from Earth.
A team of astronomers led by Werner Becker of the Max Planck Institute for…

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