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Famous Space Pillars Feel The Heat Of Star's Explosion

01/17/2008 06:28AM

Famous Space Pillars Feel The Heat Of Star's Explosion

The three iconic space pillars photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 might have met their demise, according to new evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. A new, striking image from Spitzer shows the intact dust towers next to a giant cloud of hot dust thought to have been scorched by the blast of a star that exploded, or went supernova.


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