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Lighting up a Dead Star Layers
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This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the scattered remains of an exploded star named Cassiopeia A. Spitzer infrared detectors picked through these remains and found that much of the star original layering had been preserved.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineLighting up a Dead Star Layers. NASA/JPL, 2006-10-26. Public domain. ID: PIA01903.
