Supernova is a dust factory
Grains of matter spewed by explosion offer clues to early star formation
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GATHERING DUST Observations of dust (red) detected in the center of the debris from Supernova 1987A suggest that such stellar explosions may be a source of cosmic dust. Visible light (green) and X-ray (blue) images show the expanding shockwave from the supernova.
ALMA (ESO, NAOJ, NRAO), A. Angelich; Visible light image: Hubble Space Telescope/NASA AND ESA; X-Ray image: NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory