esahubble_heic0704f February 22nd, 2007
Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
This Hubble telescope image shows the supernova's triple-ring system, including the bright spots along the inner ring of gas surrounding the exploded star. A shock wave of material unleashed by the stellar blast is slamming into regions along the inner ring, heating them up, and causing them to glow. The ring, about a light-year across, was probably shed by the star about 20 000 years before it exploded.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0704f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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