Several thousand years ago, a star some 160 000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel across the sky. The aftermath of this energetic detonation is shown here in this striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. The exploding star was a white dwarf located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our nearest neighbouring galaxies. Around 97 of stars within the Milky Way that are between a tenth and eight times the mass of the Sun are expected to end up as white dwarfs. These stars can face a number of different fates, one of which is to e Stock Photohttps://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-several-thousand-years-ago-a-star-some-160-000-light-years-away-from-169486688.html
RMKRMP00–Several thousand years ago, a star some 160 000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel across the sky. The aftermath of this energetic detonation is shown here in this striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3. The exploding star was a white dwarf located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of our nearest neighbouring galaxies. Around 97 of stars within the Milky Way that are between a tenth and eight times the mass of the Sun are expected to end up as white dwarfs. These stars can face a number of different fates, one of which is to e
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A supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth. Stock Photohttps://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-supernova-remnant-in-the-large-magellanic-cloud-galaxy-about-160000-55011408.html
RMD5DYH4–A supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth.
A supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth. Stock Photohttps://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-a-supernova-remnant-in-the-large-magellanic-cloud-galaxy-about-160000-53992529.html
RMD3RG0H–A supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth.
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