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Hidden Misshapen Celestial “Wonder”
Saturday, March 24, 2012 16:43
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It is one of the brightest and strangest objects in the Milky Way – the corpse of a star that exploded around 1000 years ago. Only a handful of such young supernova remnants are known.
The object named G350.1-0.3 is also incredibly small (only eight light years across) and young in astronomical terms.
Its shape, age and chemical composition will allow astronomers to better understand the violent ways in which stars end their lives…. Rest of article with all images here:
