File:Hubble views a spectacular supernova with interstellar material over 160,000 light-years away (28629479145).jpg
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DescriptionHubble views a spectacular supernova with interstellar material over 160,000 light-years away (28629479145).jpg |
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the remnants of a long-dead star. These rippling wisps of ionized gas, named DEM L316A, are located some 160,000 light-years away within one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors — the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The explosion that formed DEM L316A was an example of an especially energetic and bright variety of supernova, known as a Type Ia. Such supernova events are thought to occur when a white dwarf star steals more material than it can handle from a nearby companion, and becomes unbalanced. The result is a spectacular release of energy in the form of a bright, violent explosion, which ejects the star’s outer layers into the surrounding space at immense speeds. As this expelled gas travels through the interstellar material, it heats up and ionizes it, producing the faint glow that Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 has captured here. The LMC orbits the Milky Way as a satellite galaxy and is the fourth largest in our group of galaxies, the Local Group. DEM L316A is not the only supernova remnant in the LMC; Hubble came across another one in 2010 with SNR 0509, and in 2013 it snapped SNR 0519. Image credit: ESA (European Space Agency)/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu |
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Author | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA |
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Credit/Provider | ESA/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu |
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File change date and time | 08:43, 29 July 2016 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 18:53, 10 November 2015 |
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Keywords | DEM L316A |
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