Hubble Sees Stars And A Stripe In Celestial Fireworks
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - 09:28
in Astronomy & Space
A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship? A jet from a black-hole? Actually this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.