Can you spot the supernova remnant?
SNR 0509-68.7 is the bright, irregular region of reddish dust near the upper center.
After a star's explosive death in a supernova, the left-behind gas and dust are known as a supernova remnant.
The one seen in this #hubbleclassic image resides about 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is a neighboring galaxy to our own Milky Way.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and Y.-H. Chu (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
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