Astronomers used a camera mounted to the National Science Foundation’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope to view RCW 86, a ring of debris from a violent supernova eruption 1,800 years ago. Chinese scientists documented the historic astronomical event.
In the year 185 CE, Chinese astronomers created what is believed to be the first record of a supernova. Now, astronomers from the National Science Foundation s NOIRLab have imaged the remnant of that event, providing a rare image of the full extent of this ancient structure.
The University of Wyoming has announced that a UW astronomer is part of a multinational team of researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to get a first look at star formation, gas and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths.
According to UW Directo