An extragalactic supernova remnant
Charles Pevsner, taken from Rio Hurtado, Chile LHA 120-N 40 is the glowing debris of a star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way satellite galaxy about 163,000 light-years away…
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