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Cosmic Explosions
MARCH 2007
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Plasma Jet
Image by Weiqun Zhang, Stanford University, and Stan Woosley, University of California at Santa Cruz. Supercomputing: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and NASA Ames Research Center
A superheated jet of plasma, the last gasp of a dying star, fires into space at nearly the speed of light in a computer-generated image. In recent years scientists have begun to understand how stars die—and produce the universe's most dazzling explosions.
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