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Celestial Fireworks
FOR RELEASE: July 3, 2003 PHOTO NO.: STScI-PRC03-20 CELESTIAL FIREWORKS Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy. Hubble's target was a supernova remnant within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby, small companion galaxy to the Milky Way visible from the southern hemisphere. Denoted N 49, or DEM L 190, this remnant is from a massive star that died in a supernova blast whose light would have reached Earth thousands of years ago. This filamentary material will eventually be recycled into building new generations of stars in the LMC. Our own Sun and planets are constructed from similar debris of supernovae that exploded in the Milky Way billions of years ago. The Hubble Heritage image of N 49 is a color representation of data taken in July 2000, with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: Y.-H. Chu (UIUC), S. Kulkarni (Caltech) and R. Rothschild (UCSD) To see and read more about N 49, please click on: http://hubblesite.org/news/2003/20 http://heritage.stsci.edu/2003/20 The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA), for NASA, under contract with the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). |
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