Lighting up a Dead Star Layers
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the scattered remains of an exploded star named Cassiopeia A. Spitzer infrared detectors picked through these remains and found that much of the star original layering had been preserved.
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NASA ID
PIA01903
Date Created
October 26, 2006
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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