Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have for the first time obtained a three-dimensional view of the distribution of the innermost material expelled by an exploding star. The original blast was not only powerful, according to the new results, it was also more concentrated in one particular direction. New observations making use of a unique instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have provided even deeper knowledge of this amazing event, as astronomers have now been able to obtain the first-ever 3D reconstruction of the central parts of the exploding material, which was ejected at an incredible 100 million km per hour or about a tenth of the speed of light.