X-ray and Optical Images of E0102
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The supernova remnant known as E0102 was one of the early objects Chandra observed after its launch on July 23, 1999. Now, nearly ten years later, new Chandra data has been used, along with data from the Hubble Space Telescope, to create this stunning new image. Located in the Small Magellenic Cloud, E0102 is about 190,000 light years from Earth. E0102 was created when a star much more massive than our Sun exploded, an event that would have been visible from the Southern Hemisphere of the Earth over 1,000 years ago.
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(Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/MIT/D.Dewey et al. & NASA/CXC/SAO/J.DePasquale); Optical (NASA/STScI)