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8 June 2006 - 00:29 UTC

An unusual problem

by Jack Grant

Astronomers have an unusual problem that those of us who have to clean our houses wish we had: they are not seeing enough dust, at least in the supernovae they are examining.

What are the implications?

An article at ScienceDaily explains it well.

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The article begins with a non-sequitor: the supernova remnant was created 1,000 years ago and is 200,000 lightyears away. So how come we can see it already?