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1,700 Years of Moving Remnants Included in A NASA Groundbreaking Study

A Supernova Explosion in the Shape of a Hand

Ioannis Dedes
4 min readJul 21, 2021
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One thing is for sure: Science never disappoints. This is a circumstance that fully backs this claim.

The blast wave from an exploded star that moves at nearly 9 million miles per hour was captured. A movement of a 9 million mile velocity was captured with human data.

Evidence was combined from the 14 years and was put in use from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. In the paper Fast Blast Wave and Ejecta in the Young Core-Collapse Supernova Remnant MSH 15–52/RCW 89 written by Kazimierz J. Borkowski, Stephen P. Reynolds, and William Miltich, it is stated that they Chandra contributed to the report of new X-ray observations for RCW 89 in 2017 and 2018, allowing the researchers to measure the motions of decade-long time baselines.

Nevertheless, what does this mean for ordinary people like me and you, who have not studied astrophysical phenomena and astronomy in general?

Let me explain.

When the scientists refer to a remarkable cosmic structure, they mean that this was an event captured after a collision of the debris and the blast wave with a wall of the surrounding gas.

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Ioannis Dedes
Ioannis Dedes

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