{"id":239302,"date":"2026-06-19T02:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/fermi-mission-uncovers-possible-sibling-supernova-remnants"},"modified":"2026-06-19T02:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:24:22","slug":"fermi-mission-uncovers-possible-sibling-supernova-remnants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/fermi-mission-uncovers-possible-sibling-supernova-remnants","title":{"rendered":"Fermi mission uncovers possible sibling supernova remnants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fermi-mission-uncovers-possible-sibling-supernova-remnants.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star\u2019s detonation sent its binary companion hurtling through space, and then, after traveling for thousands of years, the surviving star blew up, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing 16 years of data from NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, our analysis uncovered gamma rays associated with a supernova remnant that was hidden in the glare of its neighbor, the Jellyfish Nebula, one of the brightest gamma-ray-emitting supernova remnants known,\u201d said Miltiadis Michailidis, a postdoctoral fellow in the physics department at Stanford University in California. \u201cThere are so many striking connections between the two remnants that we conclude they\u2019re likely related, giving us the first known example of a binary system where both stars have undergone supernova explosions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michailidis presented the findings Wednesday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/aas.org\/meetings\/aas248\" target=\"_blank\">248th meeting of the American Astronomical Society<\/a> in Pasadena, California. A paper describing the results will appear in a future edition of Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbited each other. The first star\u2019s detonation sent its binary companion hurtling through space, and then, after traveling for thousands of years, the surviving star blew up, too. \u201cUsing 16 years of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239302","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}