"NASA's Telescopes Kick Off New Year with Dual Cosmic Discoveries"

NASA's telescopes have captured a new image of the supernova remnant 30 Doradus B, revealing the complex aftermath of at least two massive stellar explosions in the Large Magellanic Cloud. By combining data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Blanco telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a faint X-ray shell and a pulsar wind nebula, indicating separate supernova events that occurred more than 5,000 years ago. This research, led by Wei-An Chen, provides new insights into the life cycles of massive stars and their explosive deaths.