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A Glowing Pencil

25 January 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

A stel­lar shock­wave from a super­nova 11,000 years ago forms a line in space remind­ing many observers on Earth of a pencil.

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