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Wide-Field View of the Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2-7219 — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Wide-Field View of the Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2-7219

January 15, 2021 · ESA/Hubble · Tucana

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Pictured here is the region of sky around the supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219.

Researchers have studied the Hubble archive looking for visible-light images of the supernova remnant and they have analysed the data to calculate a more accurate estimate of the age and centre of the supernova blast.

More Hubble images of 1E 0102.2-7219