Green Monster’ supernova is the youngest in the Milky Way, James Webb telescope reveals


Astronomers have captured the sharpest picture but of the particles discipline of the Milky Manner’s most up-to-date recognized supernova. 

Cassiopeia A, the remnants of a stellar explosion that appeared in Earth’s skies 340 years in the past, sits 11,000 light-years away within the constellation Cassiopeia. A brand new picture from the James Webb Area Telescope reveals the leftovers of the supernova in good inexperienced, pink and orange, with every shade representing a distinct wavelength of infrared gentle that may really be invisible to the human eye. Scientists are utilizing the pictures to dissect what occurred to the ill-fated star earlier than it died.