Are you thinking of making more space for yourself? You can learn a lesson from supernova explosions! These events are masters at creating space.

Large stars, much bigger than the Sun, explode as supernovae when the fuel in their cores runs out. As the core collapses, the outer layers of the star are blown outwards, sweeping away everything in their path.

This image of a supernova remnant known as G352.7-0.1 was taken about 2,200 years after its explosion. In the process, it spewed about 45 solar masses of matter into space!

This stunning image is a combination of X-rays (@NASAChandraXray, blue), optical light (Sloan Digital Sky Survey, white), infrared light (NASA's Spitzer, gold) and radio waves (NRAO's Jansky Very Large Array, purple).

Image description:
This image combines multi-wavelength observations of a supernova remnant. The remnant appears on a black background speckled with white, gold and blue stars of various sizes. Near the centre is a roughly circular cloud of material. The oval is filled with blue spots and surrounded by a thin purple ring. Just outside the oval, in the lower right, is a thin arc of purple. Each of the colours represents a different wavelength of light: X-ray blue, optical white, infrared gold and cyan, and radio purple.

 

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Morehead State Univ/T.Pannuti et al.; Optical: DSS; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Radio: NRAO/VLA/Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy/G.Dubner