Astronomers have put together the first three-dimensional reconstruction of an exploding star (known as a supernova).
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, they looked at Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, which is 165,000 light-years from Earth. They found that the blast would have been powerful, hurling much of the material in one direction.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10867969 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10867969)
Tony G
Here's a rather more wordy version:
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1032/
Phil,
I am a man of few words, and most of them are choice words. ;)
Tony G
:P :P
But don't you find that the BBC usually over simplifies it's science statements?
I wonder why the Sun (the comic not the one behind the clouds) doesn't do science.
But I suppose boob jobs are technically science :roll: