The moon might be hiding a history of ancient supernova explosions
September 3, 2026
It’s now possible to disentangle the sprinkling of supernova dust on the moon from the lunar dirt it is mixed up in, thanks to a new computer model that opens up the moon’s surface as a time capsule holding details about the history of supernova explosions near the Earth as our solar system has travelled through space while orbiting the galaxy.
When stars explode as a supernova, they…