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NASA Space Observatories Glimpse Faint Afterglow of Nearby Stellar Explosion

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Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image created by combining data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The gas is a supernova remnant, cataloged as N132D, ejected from the explosion of a massive star that occurred some 3,000 years ago. This titanic explosion took place in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby neighbor galaxy of our own Milky Way.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)

 

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Long Caption
Id:opo0530a
Object:IRAS 05240-6948, N 132D, Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC
Type:Nebula
Instru-ment:ACS
Width:3828
Height:3133

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