Supernova (Photo : REUTERS)
It turns out that ancient supernova upsurge has cosmic dust responsible for the creation of thousands of planets, astronomers recently discovered.
Most scientists have believed long time ago that planets like ours are actually made of star stuff; in other words, we are made out from cosmic dust.
The earlier research explained that supernovas, outbursts of stars, emitted immense amounts of cosmic dust into the early universe. However, astronomers are not aware if such dusts were able to contain such tremors from the eruptions to serve as forage for different planets in the galaxy and stars to form, according to Huffington Post.
A team of international astronomers has precisely observed a cloud formation of cosmic dust that survived in the unstable environment of supernova debris, providing support for the theory that supernovas produced such huge amount of cosmic dust in the early universe.
"This discovery is a special feather in the cap for SOFIA, demonstrating how observations made within our own Milky Way galaxy can bear directly on our understanding of the evolution of galaxies billions of light years away," explained researcher Pamela Marcum.
A pimped-up Boeing 747 special performance jetliner named SOFIA, loaded with such fancy-pants telescope, flies around the altitudes of 39,000 to 45,000 feet only so to capture the images needed by researchers back on earth, The Register reported.
According to NASA, a supernova's outward-moving tremors can actually create considerable amounts of cosmic dust and their Astronomers already have proof of such belief.
On present day, the question remains was whether the new soot- and sand-like dust particles will be able to survive the succeeding inward "rebound" tremors created when the first, outward-moving tremors collides with surrounding interstellar gas and dust.
