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27-October-2006, 12:04 AM
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NASA's Spitzer Peels Back Layers of Star's Explosion
Astronomers using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered that an exploded star, named Cassiopeia A, blew up in a somewhat orderly fashion, retaining much of its original onion-like layering.
"Spitzer has essentially found key missing pieces of the Cassiopeia A puzzle" - Jessica Ennis of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, lead author of a paper to appear in the Nov. 20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. Position (2000): R.A. 23h 23m 24s Dec. +58° 48' 54" Read more
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