November 29, 2022

The supernova remnants DEM L 190 (Image ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Kulkarni, Y. Chu)

An image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope portrays the supernova remnants cataloged as DEM L 190 or LMC N49 or by other designations observed in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The debris produced by the explosion of a massive star formed what appear from Earth as delicate colored filaments. Those materials projected into interstellar space could end up in other stellar systems, perhaps even in protoplanetary disks which will be enriched by the elements generated by the progenitor star and by the supernova.