BLAST will be on the BBC tonight. It has an interesting story behind it and luckily the brother of the head investigator is a film maker. He followed the international science team literally around the world as they tried to map star-forming regions and to find the origins of the galaxies.
Using X-Ray images, and infrared data, a team of astronomers led by Dr Tracey DeLaney of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and including Dr. Gomez from Cardiff, created a 3D visualisation of the Cassiopeia A supernova to get a more complete understanding of how the explosion happened.
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