image: An electron microscope image of a micron-sized supernova SiC stardust grain (lower right) extracted from a primitive meteorite, typified here by a Hubble Space Telescope image of Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova explosion in 1054. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 17, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Liu at institution in location, and colleagues was titled, "Late formation of silicon carbide in type II supernovae." view more
Credit: [The image was complied by Dr. Larry Nittler.]