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A Dazzling Supernova - NASA

.This photo, released on Feb. 24, 2017, reveals Supernova 1987a (center) bordered through remarkable red clouds of gas as well as dust within the Large Magellanic Cloud. This supernova, first uncovered on Feb. 23, 1987, blazed with the energy of 100 million Suns. Because that very first glimpse, SN 1987A has actually remained to interest stargazers along with its incredible light show. Found in the nearby Huge Magellanic Cloud, it was actually the local supernova surge noted in hundreds of years and also the most effective possibility however for stargazers to examine the stages prior to, during, and after the death of a superstar.Graphic credit: NASA, ESA, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as well as Gordon as well as Betty Moore Structure), and also M. Mutchler and R. Avila (STScI).

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