Nebulae

Oxygen-Rich Supernova

April 10, 1995 · ESA/Hubble · IRAS 05240-6948 , Large Magellanic Cloud , LMC , N132D, Supernova Remnant · Dorado

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the tattered debris of a star that exploded 3, 000 years ago as a supernova. This supernova remnant, called N132D, lies 169, 000 light-years away in the satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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