Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast
14 Jan 2021, 21:30 UTC
NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University)
Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star. By using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, they retraced the speedy shrapnel from the blast to calculate a more accurate estimate of the location and time of the stellar detonation.
