Space Photos of the Week: The Life and Death of Stars

Sometimes in space, what we’re gazing out on is but a beautiful corpse. Consider these leftovers from a violent death some 20,000 light years away, a supernova remnant called G54.1+0.3. What once was a star has collapsed upon itself and imploded with such force that material including gas and plasma are being shot into space, …

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