This image of the debris of an exploded star — known as supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219, or "E0102" for short — features data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. E0102 is located about 190,000 light years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the nearest galaxies to the Milky Way. It was created when a star that was much more massive than the Sun exploded, an event that would have been visible from the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth over 1000 years ago.
NASA/CXC/MIT/D.Dewey et al. and NASA/CXC/SAO/J.DePasquale
2009-01-08 06:59:52
Chandra X-ray Observatory, <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/e0102/">http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/e0102/</a>