Dissecting Dust from Detonation of Dead Star
This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows N103B -- all that remains from a supernova that exploded a millennium ago in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy 160,000 light-years away from our own Milky Way.
- Date
- 2014-06-04
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/Goddard
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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