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Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Dusty Icefield
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(I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes)
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Hold Your Breath and Clasp at Cassiopeia
Supernova
A bright flash of x-rays seen by NASA’s Swift satellite in January 2008 (inset) signals the destruction of a star several times more massive than our sun in a galaxy called NGC 2770.
The event marks the first time astronomers have seen the "first light" from a supernova and could help efforts to predict the stellar explosions.
Image courtesy NASA/Princeton University/Gemini Observatories
Supernova by Liz Phair
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Also of note (pun intended), astronomers have discovered that the gas in the core of the cluster generates the lowest musical tone in the entire cosmos, a B-flat. No human will ever hear it, as it exists 57 octaves below middle C on a piano.
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