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When his series of 15 five-minute exposures is done, he has a truly startling image: a fragment of a supernova, a star that exploded 25, 000 years ago.
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When a star goes supernova, it leaves a remnant, like the one Tycho Brahe observed in 1572, or Johannes Kepler in 1604.
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The possibility of a supernova - an exploding star - was put forward, but then ruled out because the debris from such an event would still be visible in telescopes today.
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These primordial meteorites contain compounds that can only have formed from the decay of radioactive isotopes produced when a star explodes in a supernova.
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Well the asymmetrical spread of matter suggests it was ejected from the top and bottom of the star faster than elsewhere, unlike typical supernova remnants that leave symmetrical patterns.
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The white dwarf is thought to have later blown up in a supernova after siphoning matter, or fuel, from a nearby star.
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Knowing that the supernova is 15, 000 years old, and logging the distance the neutron star had traveled in that time, Tomsick and his team were able to calculate its speed.
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We call these stars supergiants and they are 20 times more massive than our own sun and so when these stars go supernova they expand to a radius of up to a billion miles, becoming the biggest and brightest star in the universe.
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Coming up on February 10, the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute will show us what it looks like when a supernova that has spewed tons of debris into space sees that debris begin to hit the rings around the dying star.
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