NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory captured a festive image of supernova remnant 30 Doradus B, which is actually part of a larger region of space where stars have been continuously forming for the past 8 to 10 million years. What you’re looking at is not just one, but the remnants of at least two exploded stars.
This mystical landscape of dark clouds of gas, young stars, high-energy shocks, and superheated gas is located 160,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. If you look closer at this image, optical data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can be seen in black and white to highlight the sharp features of 30 Doradus B.
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A team of astronomers led by Wei-An Chen from the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, have used over two million seconds of Chandra observing time of 30 Dor B and its surroundings to analyze the region. They found a faint shell of X-rays that extends about 130 light-years across,” said Lee Mohon, Web Editor at NASA.
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