NASA X-ray spacecraft discovers supernova wreckage at the heart of the Milky Way

NASA’s Chandra X-ray spacecraft has detected the supernova wreckage of a dead star that erupted 1,700 years ago and ejected debris at 2 million miles per hour.

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