Dusty Supernova

Spitzer_sig10-021_1024

spitzer_sig10-021 October 12th, 2010

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)

While searching the skies for black holes using the Spitzer Space Telescope Deep Wide Field Survey, Ohio State University astronomers discovered a giant supernova that was smothered in its own dust. In this artists rendering, an outer shell of gas and dust -- which erupted from the star hundreds of years ago -- obscures the supernova within. This event in a distant galaxy hints at one possible future for the brightest star system in our own Milky Way

Provider: Spitzer Space Telescope

Image Source: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3401-sig10-021-Dusty-Supernova

Curator: Spitzer Space Telescope, Pasadena, CA, USA

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC/Caltech)
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2010-10-12
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Redshift
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3401-sig10-021-Dusty-Supernova
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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1200 E. California Blvd.
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Spitzer Science Center
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sig10-021.tif
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2011-09-01
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