Beautiful picture of a supernova remnant, featured on APOD a couple of days ago. It’s located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of our Galaxy’s closest neighbours, at a distance of around 190,000 lightyears.
The image is a composite of X-ray and optical observations.
Credit: X-ray – NASA / CXC / MIT / D.Dewey et al., NASA / CXC / SAO / J.DePasquale; Optical – NASA / STScI
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