According to Nautilus, astronomers have captured images of a supernova remnant nestled at the heart of the Milky Way—the lingering debris from a star that exploded roughly 1,700 years ago. The discovery offers a rare window into a cosmic cataclysm that occurred during Earth's medieval period, now visible to modern telescopes as an expanding shell of stellar wreckage still reverberating through space.

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