{"id":203269,"date":"2025-01-07T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/astronomers-find-massive-supernova-remnant-closer-than-previously-thought"},"modified":"2025-01-07T11:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T17:35:28","slug":"astronomers-find-massive-supernova-remnant-closer-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/astronomers-find-massive-supernova-remnant-closer-than-previously-thought","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers find massive supernova remnant closer than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-find-massive-supernova-remnant-closer-than-previously-thought2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers have investigated a large Galactic supernova remnant designated G278.94+1.35. Results of the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2412.20836\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> Dec. 30 on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>, shed more light on the properties of this remnant.<\/p>\n<p>Supernova remnants (SNRs) are diffuse, expanding structures resulting from a supernova explosion. They contain ejected material expanding from the explosion and other interstellar material that has been swept up by the passage of the shockwave from the exploded star.<\/p>\n<p>G278.94+1.35 is a supernova remnant in the Milky Way, discovered in 1988. It has an estimated linear diameter of about 320 light years and its age is assumed to be about 1 million years. The distance to G278.94+1.35 is estimated to be some 8,800 light years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers have investigated a large Galactic supernova remnant designated G278.94+1.35. Results of the study, published Dec. 30 on the pre-print server arXiv, shed more light on the properties of this remnant. Supernova remnants (SNRs) are diffuse, expanding structures resulting from a supernova explosion. They contain ejected material expanding from the explosion [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}