PHOTO OF THE DAY July 17, 2005  

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Photographer NASA/CXC/John P. Hughes, Rutgers University

"A star explodes. Debris and energy blast out and glow as brightly as billions of suns. A supernova remnant is born."

—From "Super X-ray Vision," December 2002, National Geographic magazine


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