Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO

N132D is the remnant of an exploded star in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Chandra image shows a highly structured remnant, or shell, of 10-million-degree gas that is 80 light years across. The remnant is thought to be about 3,000 years old. The Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion galaxy to the Milky Way, is 160,000 light years from Earth.

Multi-wavelength Images:
X-ray NASA/CXC/SAO Jpg (256 k) Tiff (3.8 MB) PS (6.4 MB)	Optical J. Morse/CTIO Jpg (391 k)		Radio J. Dickel & D. Milne, ACTA Jpg (118 k) Tif (1.14 MB) PS (1.9 MB)

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