Faint Afterglow of Nearby Stellar Explosion: Supernova Remnant N132D | Hubble

Faint Afterglow of Nearby Stellar Explosion: Supernova Remnant N132D | Hubble

Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image created by combining data from the NASA/European Space Agency 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.

Distance: 170,000 light years

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA

Release Date: October 4, 2005

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