Top 10 Supernovas
A public vote took place in Stockholm for the ten most spectacular supernovas, with the SN 1054 Crab Nebula (left), with its stunning pulsar, the hands down winner. Runner-up Geminga (iamge left), the gamma-ray pulsar, which means "it's not there" in Italian, is a sort of neutron star: the decaying core of a behemoth star that went supernova about 300,000 years ago and must have given our primitive ancestors quite a scare
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