Betsy Smeed

Science is cool

Eagle Nebula R.I.P.

January21

The iconic Hubble image the is probably the wallpaper on hundreds of million computers is no more. The Eagle Nebula was destroyed by a supernova 6ooo years ago according to the NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. Just imagine when humans were building the first villages a supernova was scattering the dust of the Eagle Nebula.

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