NASA Space Observatories Glimpse Faint Afterglow of Nearby Stellar Explosion
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.
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About the Image
NASA press release
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| Id: | opo0530a |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 4 October 2005, 15:00 |
| Size: | 3828 x 3133 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, N 132D |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Nebula : Type : Supernova Remnant |
| Distance: | 170000 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| X-ray | Chandra ACIS | |
| Optical B |
475 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical V |
550 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Optical H-alpha + Nii |
658 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Infrared I |
775 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
| Infrared Z |
850 nm | Hubble Space Telescope ACS |
