Pan of the Supernova Remnant Expansion 1E 0102.2-7219 | Hubble

Pan of the Supernova Remnant Expansion 1E 0102.2-7219 | Hubble

This video featured 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.

Credit: NASA, European Space Agency (ESA), and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University)  

Duration: 30 seconds

Release Date:  January 15, 2021

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