Observatory: Getting a Handle on Cosmic Dust Caused by Supernovas

Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 18:30 in Astronomy & Space

With the aid of the European Space Association’s Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers detected enough cosmic dust, emitted from a supernova almost 25 years ago, to form 200,000 Earths.

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