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
Image Use Policy: Public Domain
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