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Hubble views a spectacular supernova with interstellar material over 160,000 light-years away
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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.
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Credit lineHubble views a spectacular supernova with interstellar material over 160,000 light-years away. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000259.
