G54.1+0.3: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

A new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star. The dust is flying past and engulfing a nearby family of stars. Scientists think the stars in the image are part of a stellar cluster in which the a supernova  exploded. The material ejected in the explosion is now blowing past these stars at high velocities.
 
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