Baby Supernova

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This image provided by NASA Wednesday May 14, 2008 shows a composite image of the supernova remnant G1.9+0.3 taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The image obtained in early 2007 is shown in orange and the radio image from NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA) from 1985 is in blue. The difference in size between the two images gives clear evidence for expansion, allowing the time since the original supernova explosion (about 140 years) to be estimated. his makes the original explosion the most recent supernova in the Galaxy, as measured in Earth's time-frame (referring to when events are observable at Earth). Equivalently, this is the youngest known supernova remnant in the Galaxy (140 years old), easily beating the previous record of about 330 years for Cassiopeia A. The rapid expansion and young age for G1.9+0.3 was recently confirmed by a new VLA image obtained in early 2008. (AP Photo/NASA)

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Walking Assistan... Robotic suits named HAL, or "hybrid assistive limb," are demonstrated during a press conference at the headquarters of Cyberdyne, a new company in Tsukuba, outside Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008. HAL, that reads brain signals and helps people with mobility problems, will be available to rent in Japan for US$2,200 for both legs and $1,500 for a one leg a month starting Friday _ an invention that may have far-reaching benefits for the disabled and elderly. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)
Seeing Red This photo provided by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University shows tissues of a mouse embryo labeled with a green fluorescent protein and a red fluorescent protein. Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday Oct. 8, 2008 for research on a glowing jellyfish protein that revolutionized the ability to study disease and normal development in living organisms. Researchers worldwide now use GFP to track such processes as the development of brain cells, the growth of tumors and the spread of cancer cells. (AP Photo/MSKCC, Gloria Kwon, Kat Hadjantonakis)
Total Eclipse The total solar eclipse is observed above the mountainous Siberian Altai region,_ about 3,000 kilometers (1,850 miles) east of Moscow, on Friday, Aug. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Oleg Romanov)
Albino Alligator Anmale albino American alligator swims in his new home at the California Academy of Sciences new facility at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008. A pair of American alligators were driven over 2,800 miles (4500 kms) from a zoological park in St. Augustine, Fla., to be among the 38,000 live animals that will have a new home at the Academy of Sciences. The facility opens on September 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Secret Van Gogh Undated handout picture shows a painting underneath Van Gogh's famous work 'Patch of grass' in Hamburg. Scientists have made a coloured view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van Gogh's 'Patch of Grass' painting, using advanced X-ray techniques, a Dutch university said on Wednesday. (DESY/Reuters)
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Baby Supernova This image provided by NASA Wednesday May 14, 2008 shows a composite image of the supernova remnant G1.9+0.3 taken by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The image obtained in early 2007 is shown in orange and the radio image from NRAO's Very Large Array (VLA) from 1985 is in blue. The difference in size between the two images gives clear evidence for expansion, allowing the time since the original supernova explosion (about 140 years) to be estimated. his makes the original explosion the most recent supernova in the Galaxy, as measured in Earth's time-frame (referring to when events are observable at Earth). Equivalently, this is the youngest known supernova remnant in the Galaxy (140 years old), easily beating the previous record of about 330 years for Cassiopeia A. The rapid expansion and young age for G1.9+0.3 was recently confirmed by a new VLA image obtained in early 2008. (AP Photo/NASA)
Head Gear A man wearing Virtual-Eye's High End Wearable Display Device looks at his hands as he tries a three-dimensional virtual reality system during the Industrial Virtual Reality Expo 2008 in Tokyo June 27, 2008. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-hoon)
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