English: Featured in this Hubble image is an expanding, gaseous corpse — a supernova remnant — known as 1E 0102.2-7219. It is the remnant of a star that exploded long ago in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way located roughly 200 000 light-years away.
Because the gaseous knots in this supernova remnant are moving at different speeds and directions from the supernova explosion, those moving toward Earth are colored blue in this composition and the ones moving away are shown in red. This new Hubble image shows these ribbons of gas speeding away from the explosion site at an average speed of 3.2 million kilometers per hour. At that speed, you could travel to the Moon and back in 15 minutes.
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Featured in this Hubble image is an expanding, gaseous corpse — a supernova remnant — known as 1E 0102.2-7219.
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Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
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NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University)
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Featured in this Hubble image is an expanding, gaseous corpse— a supernova remnant — known as 1E 0102.2-7219. It is the remnant of a star that exploded long ago in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way located roughly 200 000 light-years away. Because the gaseous knots in this supernova remnant are moving at different speeds and directions from the supernova explosion, those moving toward Earth are colored blue in this composition and the ones moving away are shown in red. This new Hubble image shows these ribbons of gas speeding away from the explosion site at an average speed of 3.2 million kilometers per hour. At thatspeed, you could travel to the Moon and back in 15 minutes.
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Hubble Captures the Supernova Remnant 1E 0102.2-7219
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10:00, 15 January 2021
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This Hubble Space Telescope portrait reveals the gaseous remains of an exploded massive star that erupted 1,700 years. The stellar corpse, a supernova remnant named 1E 0102.2-7219, met its demise in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The image shows ribbons of gaseous clumps speeding away at from the explosion site at an average speed of 2 million miles per hour. At that velocity, you could travel to the Moon and back in 15 minutes. This color-composite image was assembled from separate exposures through red, green, and blue filters, which capture the glow of ionized oxygen. Because the gaseous knots are moving at different speeds from the supernova explosion, the fastest ones are colored blue and the slowest knots, colored red, in this composition. Researchers plumbed the Hubble archive for visible-light images of the supernova remnant. They analyzed the data to calculate a more accurate estimate of the age and center of the supernova blast. The Small Magellanic Cloud, located roughly 200,000 light-years away, is visible in the southern hemisphere. This image is a blend of exposures taken in 2014 by the Wide Field Camera 3.