Massive Star Remains Highlighted by Hubble (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Massive Star Remains Highlighted by Hubble

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This Hubble Space Telescope portrait reveals the gaseous remains of an exploded massive star that erupted approximately 1,700 years ago. The stellar corpse, a supernova remnant named 1E 0102.2-7219, met its demise in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.

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Credits: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University)

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