When a star dies, it produces a massive explosion known as a supernova, the remnants of which can be observed billions of light years away. These explosions are so consequential that a supernova is ...

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A scientist finds beauty in the “visual synonyms” that exist in images seen through microscopes and telescopes. By Katrina Miller For Kim Arcand, a visualization scientist for NASA’s Chandra X-ray ...

Two new efforts have taken a famous supernova remnant from the static to the dynamic. A new movie of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows changes in time never seen before in this type of ...

Screen shot of the VR model being built. Colors assigned include jets in green; iron in blue; neon in yellow; cooler debris in purple; outer blast wave in red. A new project using data from NASA’s ...

Visualization plays a key role in helping scientists understand large amounts of information. This role can range from the discovery of problems within the data that may not necessarily be evident in ...

Two new efforts have taken a famous supernova remnant from the static to the dynamic. A new movie of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory shows changes in time never seen before in this type of ...