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Jellyfish nebula may be the scene of two stars going supernova

Jellyfish nebula may be the scene of two stars going supernova
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and M. Michailidis et al. 2026; orange, brown: radio, ESA/Planck and MWISP; yellow: optical, DSS; red: infrared, NASA/WISE; violet: ultraviolet, NASA/Swift; teal: X-rays, SRG/eROSITA; magenta: gamma rays, NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration

The star that formed the Jellyfish nebula may have had a partner star that exploded 100,000 years earlier, according to international researchers, who say that this may be the first known discovery of a binary star system in which both stars have gone supernova.

The Jellyfish nebula, known as IC443, is the remnant of a star exploding in a supernova and leaving behind an expanding cloud of debris...

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