Tarantula nebula and supernova 1987A. True-colour optical image of the Tarantula nebula (NGC 2070,30 Doradonis,upper left) and supernova 1987A (lower right). Both of these features are in the Large Magellanic Cloud,a small galaxy which lies around 170,000 light years away. The Tarantula nebula is one of the largest and most powerful nebulae known. It is an enormous region of glowing ionised hydrogen gas. The supernova became visible in 1987 as a giant star exploded at the end of its life. It provided astronomers with valuable data about star death. This image was produced by digitally combining photographs taken by the UK Schmidt Telescope in blue and red light | |
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