Exploding star reconstructed in 3D

[Tony G]

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

Tony G

[PhilB]

Here's a rather more wordy version:

http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1032/

[Tony G]

Phil,

I am a man of few words, and most of them are choice words. 

Tony G

[PhilB]

 

But don't you find that the BBC usually over simplifies it's science statements?

[mickw]

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