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		kunalpowar1203 on April 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud capt... While spending about 30 minutes zooming in and marvelling at it, i came across https://imgur.com/fdb6JZH. Is this an exploding star?

avidmoon on April 15, 2019 [–]

This is DEM L316. It might seem like one object, but these are the remnants of two different supernovas (of different types: smaller is Type Ia, bigger Type II).

[0] http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/d316/

kunalpowar1203 on April 15, 2019 | [–]

Ah! Thanks for the link.

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