Road to the Lighthouse

This 28 image photomosaic captures the arch of the milky way over the Guilderton Lighthouse in Western Australia, and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The location of a supernova that would have exploded 9,000 years ago and been visible in the night sky is shown in the image. Credit: Paean Ng / Astrordinary Imaging.

These are 12 of the 27 newly-discovered supernova remnants—the remains of stars that ended their lives in huge stellar explosions thousands to hundreds of thousands of years ago. The radio images trace the edges of the explosions as they continue their ongoing expansion into interstellar space. [Some are huge, larger than the full moon, and others are small and hard to spot in the complexity of the Milky Way.] Credit: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team.

These are the 27 newly-discovered supernova remnants—the remains of stars that ended their lives in huge stellar explosions thousands to hundreds of thousands of years ago. The radio images trace the edges of the explosions as they continue their ongoing expansion into interstellar space. [Some are huge, larger than the full moon, and others are small and hard to spot in the complexity of the Milky Way.] Credit: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team.

The Milky Way

This is a 104 frame photomosaic capturing the Milky Way directly overhead taken at the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia. A popular tourist location by day and incredible stargazing at night. The location of a supernova that would have exploded 9,000 years ago is shown in the image. Credit: Paean Ng / Astrordinary Imaging.

The Milky Way as seen by the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope This image shows a new view of the Milky Way from the Murchison Widefield Array, with the lowest frequencies in red, middle frequencies in green, and the highest frequencies in blue. Huge golden filaments indicate enormous magnetic fields, supernova remnants are visible as little spherical bubbles, and regions of massive star formation show up in blue. [The supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is hidden in the bright white region in the centre.] Credit: Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker (ICRAR/Curtin) and the GLEAM Team