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Star death and rebirth

The light from Supernova 1987a, an exploding star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way, reached the Earth in 1987. The Hubble Space Telescope, referred to as "space telescope" in this clip, was used to study the supernova remnant.

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Horizon1992-1993, Here Be Monsters

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