Saturday, November 5, 2022 – 10:35 am
Chile, November 5 / WAM / The European Space Observatory (ESO) has captured an image that reveals “ghostly” remnants in deep space, due to the explosion of a giant star that produced a tapestry of colors and waves, and after the life of the massive star ended with a powerful explosion about 11,000 years ago, Only the delicate combination of pink and orange clouds remains.
This was shown in detail by the image captured using the Astronomical Survey Telescope from the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO’s) Very Large Telescope (VLT), located in Mount Paranal in Chile.
The pink and orange gas clouds are located 800 light-years from Earth, making them one of the closest supernova remnants to our planet. (A light year is about 6 trillion miles away.) When the star exploded, its outer layers were expelled into the surrounding gas, producing amazing glowing filaments of gas, which glow with heat from the shock waves.
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Emad Al Ali