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Flashes from the Past: Echoes from Ancient Supernovae

28 Diciembre 2005

A team led by astronomers from CTIO has found faint visible echoes of three ancient supernovae by detecting their centuries-old light as it is reflected by clouds of interstellar dust hundreds of light-years removed from the original explosions. The oldest one is likely to have occurred more than six hundred years ago.

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Flashes from the Past: Echoes from Ancient Supernovae
Flashes from the Past: Echoes from Ancient Supernovae