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This satellite galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC N49), is 13 billion years old, and it features delicate sheets made of gas filaments.
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This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a supernova in intricate detail.
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The brilliantly-colored strands are the remnants of the supernova,
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When a star reaches the end of its life, it is triggered by a massive explosion.
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The stellar is located 160,000 light-years from Earth and in the constellation Dorado,
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this cosmic remnant is an incredibly bright supernova. Hubble researchers explained
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that it's the brightest supernova remnant within the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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This supernova debris cloud is 75 light-years wide, but that's not all it left behind.
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Scientists believe that underneath the glowing cloud is a rapidly spinning neutron star,
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which was created when the core of the exploding massive star collapsed under the pressure of its own gravity.
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The mass of these neutron stars is around the mass of the sun, but it condensed into the area of a city.
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In fact, a small teaspoon of material inside the neutron star would weight around 4 billion tons.