Scientists snap gnarly image of this dead star's decaying corpse

Around 11,000 years ago, a giant star exploded. But its corpse remains.Astronomers used a powerful camera mounted to the National Science Foundation's Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope in the lofty Chilean mountains to snap an extremely detailed view of the "Vela Supernova Remnant" — the leftovers of this ancient cosmic blast. It's now a region of churning gas, expanding further into space."The Vela Supernova Remnant is merely the ghost of a massive star that once was," the NSF's N