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NASA’s Hubble Telescope sees huge exploding star disappear into the void – CNET
NASA and ESA watched the remnants of a star go from the radiance of 5 billion suns to almost nothing over the course of a year.
Hubble observed a supernova on the outer edge of spiral galaxy NGC 2525.
NASA, ESA, and A. Riess (STScI/JHU) and the SH0ES team Acknowledgment: M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)
Titanic, runaway thermonuclear explosion. A disappearing act. Nature’s atomic bomb. NASA sure knows how to describe a supernova, the final moments of a star’s existence.
Seventy-million light-years away in the scenic spiral galaxy NGC 2525, a white dwarf exploded and the Hubble Space Telescope witnessed its last days. NASA and …
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