Life's Elements Seen in Supernova Remnant | Video
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 18:30
in Astronomy & Space
“We are star stuff, harvesting starlight"' wrote Carl Sagan in 1978. In 2012, the Chandra X-ray Observatory harvested a signature of inner star elements on the outskirts of a supernova - elements that Sagan and others termed "the stuff of life.”