Dust Factory | Space Wallpaper

Monday, January 6, 2014 - 17:30 in Astronomy & Space

This beautiful space wallpaper is an artist's illustration of Supernova 1987A, which is based on real data and reveals the cold, inner regions of the exploded star's remnants (in red) where tremendous amounts of dust were detected and imaged by ALMA.

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