NASA Launches Rocket in Mission to Study 20,000 Year Old Supernova

NASA has a new mission dedicated to studying the formation of new star systems, specifically how they emerge in space after stellar deaths. The space agency kicked off its Integral Field Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Experiment (INFUSE) mission by sending off a rocket from New Mexico on Sunday, October 29.NASA explained that a constellation called Cygnus is on display throughout the northern hemisphere for a few months out of the year and within it is a supernova, the Cygnus Loop.The Loop is the rem...