This component is confined to the central area of the SNR and may represent newly - formed dust in the unshocked
supernova ejecta.
«Our best guess is that prior to the explosion, the star cast off some shell of material, and
the supernova ejecta later collided with this shell.»
Not exact matches
«We have found a remarkably large dust mass concentrated in the central part of the
ejecta from a relatively young and nearby
supernova,» said Remy Indebetouw, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the University of Virginia, both in Charlottesville, USA.
Scientists have attributed the patterns observed in
supernova explosions and
ejecta from shock - induced metal melt to RM instability.