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An Exploded Star's Remains and Its Murky Environment

Posted on Friday, November 30, 2012
Uploaded by Waspie_Dwarf
An Exploded Star's Remains and Its Murky Environment
Image credit: ESA/NASA

Uploader comment: Supernova remnant W44 is the focus of this new image created by combining data from the European Space Agency's Herschel and XMM-Newton space observatories. W44 is the vast purple sphere that dominates the left hand side of this image, and measures about 100 light-years across.


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