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m.It remained bril- star that exploded more se core. For a fei outwurd.
mt for six months and. than 5.000 years ago. S. or e w n severa The remnants bt u a=-
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lld be se wrm are rematrkably known as a supernova- expanding cosmi.c debris
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a blast wave of emergy
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that expands witnL xr, una
French comet huntt reaches a stage when it other stars in its gal the compact remains of
harles Messier. re nuclear fuel ha!s been .. combined. ft may ev the former star a t its core
nearly depleted and the seen in the daylight. Sometimes t h ~ core
s is
delicate balance betw Eventually, the glow of detected as a neutron
internal pressure and the supernova fades. The star or pulsar-that is, a
gravity holding the st g a s and dust of the :star's rapidly spinning object
- outer lavers continurs *A
1845. observed ti 1 b J
rudge, drew its strange
ape, ancf describled it i mainta:
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toaether crm no lonu
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spew in!g I expand ihrough spa#
pic!ting up c>the1inte
whose macmetic field is
so stronsI that raidiation
can escarpe only along
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,ghthe s to the deepest
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across the nlght sky,in &Vera[ clusters,,A,! wavelengths. in oddit ior
fact, material in the uni- discovered to emit X-rays to charting these rnassiv
verse is clumped together by both the Small Astron- conglomerations--th
in great, uneven masses. omy Sateilite a n d the largest aggregates
Our own Sun, for examI- British X-ray satellit'e. matter known to ex
pie, is but o n e of a bill ion More recentiy. lnstrlu- the observations a r e
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to1n)to..the smooth (
centraliy peaked er
srons of A 85 (tcp/.'
first type,thought tt
an early stage of el
tion. tends to be TICh In
spiral galax~esand low in
both X-ray impera,tures
and velocity dispersrc
The second type is ol
wtth few sprais, higl
temperatures and hrg
own gab
ned to a
vmse, regions of the WAO 2s X-ray teies;cope
were selected which found 43 X - m y objects.
magtrout n i th scores af
ray sources. These rcl
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