Daily Telescope: A spectacular view of a 10,000-year-old supernova remnant

Enlarge / The Garlic Nebula in all its glory.

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Good morning. It’s November 10, and today’s photo reveals a faint supernova.

It has the formal name CTB-1, and after its discovery in the 1950s, it was thought to be a planetary nebula. (Regular readers will recall that planetary nebulae turned out to not have anything to do with planets.) CTB, in case you were wondering, stands for “Cal Tech Observatory catalog B.”