Astronomy Picture Of The Day: Glowing Gas

 

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This Hubble view captures the glowing gas left behind by a massive star that exploded around 1,700 years ago. The remnants of the star lie in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy orbiting our Milky Way. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic)