N49, Supernova Explosion In Lmc
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N49, Supernova Explosion In Lmc
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This beautiful composite image shows N49, the aftermath of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. A new long observation from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, shown in blue, reveals evidence for a bullet-shaped object being blown out of a debris field left over from an exploded star. This bullet can be seen in the bottom right-hand corner of the image and is rich in silicon, sulfur, and neon. The detection of this bullet shows that the explosion that destroyed the star was highly asymmetric. The bullet is traveling at a high speed of about 5 million miles an hour away from a bright point source in the upper left part of N49.
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August 14th, 2014
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