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Astronomers discover two new supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud, providing insights into stellar explosions and their role in shaping galaxy evolution.

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and these stars gain tremendously powerful magnetic fields when matter ejected from during their explosive supernova deaths falls back toward them. Scientists say the discovery of this dynamo-like ...