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Horseshoes and Jellyfish

17 November 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, and Hub­ble SM4 ERO Team

Glow­ing pink and pur­ple gas resem­bling a horse­shoe or a jel­ly­fish are all that’s left of super­nova rem­nant N132D in the Large Mag­el­lanic Cloud. A star 10 to 15 times larger and more mas­sive than the Sun exploded about 3,000 years ago to cre­ate this expand­ing shell of gas and dust. NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope’s sharp vision shows astronomers details within the remnant.

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