Thursday, September 10, 2009

Remnant N132D

Probing the Tattered Remains of Supernova Remnant N132DThe wispy, glowing, magenta structures in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image are the remains of a star 10 to 15 times the mass of the Sun that we would have seen exploding as a supernova 3,000 years ago. The remnant’s fast-moving gas is plowing into the surrounding gas of the galaxy, creating a supersonic shock wave in the surrounding

No comments:

Post a Comment