Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud

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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Supernova 1987A within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy to our Milky Way.

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NASA, ESA, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), and M. Mutchler and R. Avila (STScI)

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