Until recently, astronomers considered the Crab Nebula to be a by-product of a supermassive star going supernova – the biggest known explosion ... create a detailed 3D model of what the exploded ...

Ultimately, there were some things about the event that preexisting models could not explain and which puzzled astronomers. Namely, that the material ejected by the star's explosion appeared to ...

Using cutting-edge theoretical models and data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have transformed astronomical observations into detailed 3D models of cosmic objects — models ...