Image: Hubble Investigates Stellar Shrapnel
Monday, August 22, 2016 - 06:31
in Astronomy & Space
Several thousand years ago, a star some 160,000 light-years away from us exploded, scattering stellar shrapnel across the sky. The aftermath of this energetic detonation is shown here in this striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3.