Radioactive Core of a Dead Star
NASA NuSTAR has, for the first time, imaged the radioactive guts of a supernova remnant, the leftover remains of a star that exploded. The NuSTAR data are blue, and show high-energy X-rays.
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PIA17841
Date Created
February 19, 2014
Center
JPL
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image
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