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Watch a Star Explode in 3D Friday, January 09, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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Using views captured by several orbiting and ground-based telescopes, an MIT researcher and her colleagues have produced the first fully three-dimensional reconstruction of the remains of a star that exploded in a cosmic cataclysm called a supernova. The complex supernova remnant, called Cassiopeia A (or Cas A for short), consists of a set of intertwined bubble-like shells of debris that were spewed out by a star undergoing its death throes 330 years ago. (source: web.mit.edu)
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