‘Mini supernova’ sheds new light on stellar explosions


Chuck Bednar for redOrbit.com – @BednarChuck NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has for the first time captured a detailed time-lapse image of a “mini supernova” that they believe could reveal new information about the dynamics of far larger stellar explosions, the US space agency announced earlier this week. Here’s a video to get you in the explosion…