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850-year-old 'firework' supernova full of mysterious knots
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On air: Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield on Weekend EditionPublished
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- First reported by Live Science: “This 850-year-old 'firework' supernova is full of mysterious knots”.
- Covered on BBN on Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 1:02 PM ET on Weekend Edition, by Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield.
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Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAstronomers saw a star explode in eleven eighty-one, and a new image from the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii shows what is left, a nebula called Pa thirty full of chains of tiny gas knots.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo it's a firework that's been going for eight hundred and fifty years, and we're only now getting the good angle.
Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt isn't still exploding, Kenji. The gas is what's left, and I assume nobody can explain why it clumps into knots.
Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMysterious knots. That's the best engagement bait in the sky.
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