Showing posts with label Remnant N132D. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remnant N132D. Show all posts

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