Space / 2014-06-04
Dissecting Dust from Detonation of Dead Star
Dissecting Dust from Detonation of Dead Star
NASA's image library records Dissecting Dust from Detonation of Dead Star.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows N103B -- all that remains from a supernova that exploded a millennium ago in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy 160,000 light-years away from our own Milky Way.