Supernova remnant LMC N 49,optical Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image. These clouds of glowing gas and dust are where the explosion of a large star,thousands of years ago,has flung the star's outer layers against the interstellar medium. The impact from this rapid expansion causes the gas and dust to heat up and glow. A neutron star (not visible) formed from the star's core. The expanding dust cloud contains the material needed to form planets around new stars. LMC N 49 is 90 light years wide and 160,000 light years distant in the LMC (Large Magellanic Cloud),a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy | |
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