VIOLENT ORIGINS X-rays burst from supernova SN 2010jl (bright purple circle, top), seen in a composite image from the Chandra and Hubble space telescopes of its host galaxy. Within weeks of the explosion, a shell of interstellar dust formed around the dead star.
Chandra/Royal Military College of Canada, STScI, CXC, NASA
THREE’S A CROWD A frozen, rocky planet orbits one of a pair of faint red stars (center and right), roughly 3,300 light-years away, as seen in an artist’s illustration.
Cheongho Han, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea
Stars in the young cluster NGC 2264 have been forming for much longer than astronomers had thought.
ESO
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