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The cosmic ocean twinkles and transforms with the birth of stars and their explosive demise into supernovas. Brilliantly bright and wrought with destructive power, supernovas and their gaseous remnants are a frequent target of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory because of the clues they give us about their earlier lives as stars. Equipped with X-ray detectors to cut through the clutter and glare that blind optical telescopes, Chandra's revealed details about supernovas that help to shown them for the stars that they once were. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/chandra_092007_transcript.html