Just look at this incredible supernova

[Mike Wehner]

• A long-dead star is still producing a spectacular supernova, and the blast is moving at incredible speeds.
• Some areas of the supernova blast are moving at speeds of up to 23 million miles per hour.
• The explosion happened some 20,000 light-years from Earth.

We know that stars have finite lifespans. Some of them just sort of fizzle out, but others get wild and blow up into spectacular supernova explosions. What you see above is an example of the latter. It's called Kepler's supernova remnant, and it's the still-ongoing explosion of a star that was first observed back in 1604. Johannes Kepler, the famous astronomer, saw the star explode, and it's been exploding ever since.

NASA likes to check up on the progress of the supernova from time to time, and new observations using the Chandra X-ray Observatory have offered some very interesting tidbits. Most notably, the speed of the explosion is not slowing down in the slightest.

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