Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: Star Shrapnel Comin' Through!
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When a star explodes, it sends stellar shrapnel across nearby galaxies. In this photo, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the aftermath of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy several thousands years ago.
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The photo on the left, taken by the Very Large Telescope, shows a wide-field view of the molecular cloud beyond the Orion Nebula, which is 1,400 light-years away from Earth. The area in the rectangle is shown in fiery detail on the right, taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
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Lake Powell, by the border of Utah and Arizona, is the second biggest artificial reservoir in the US. This photo of the lake was taken by EarthKam, a camera mounted on the International Space Station that responds to requests for documentation of specific locations from students around the world.
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By looking at the debris that a star leaves behind after it explodes, like this photo of supernova remnants from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers can figure out when a supernova occurred, essential for stellar timelines.
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Although these two icy moons of Saturn, Tethys (on the left) and Hyperion, may look like neighbors, they’re 930,000 miles apart.
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In this photo taken by NASA’s Aqua satellite, smoke from the Soberanes Fire spreads towards Big Sur in northern California. The red dots show heat signatures as detected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.
