Blog Post Image: The source of the sky’s X-ray glow

An illustration depicting the “local hot bubble,” of gas that a supernova is believed to have left in our galactic neighborhood about ten million years ago. An international team of scientists has determined that it is the source of most of the diffuse X-ray background in our night sky. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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