Supernova Remnant, Dusty Death of a Massive Star
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the supernova remnant sits next to the nebula N76 in a bright, star-forming region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy. It is a dwarf galaxy, has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years and contains several hundred million stars. It has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of our Sun. At a distance of about 200,000 light-years, it is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. It is also one of the most distant objects that can be seen with the naked eye. Hubble Space Telescope Mission (HST Mission) and Spitzer Space Telescope Mission. Image taken with the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS).
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