Saturday 5 November 2022 – 10:35
Chile, 5 November / WAM / The European Space Observatory (ESO) has captured an image that reveals “ghostly” remnants in deep space, due to the explosion of a giant star that produced a tapestry of colors and waves, and after the massive star’s life ended in a powerful explosion about 11,000 years ago, only the delicate combination of pink and orange clouds remains.
This was demonstrated in detail by the image captured using the Astronomical Survey Telescope from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), located on Mount Paranal in Chile.
The pink and orange gas clouds are located 800 light-years from Earth, making them one of the closest supernova remnants to our planet. (A light-year is about 6 trillion miles away.) When the star exploded, its outer layers were ejected into the surrounding gas, producing incredible filaments of bright gas, which glow from the heat of the shock waves.
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Emad Al Ali
