Probing the tattered remains of the supernova remnant N132D

The wispy, glowing, magenta structures in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image are the remains of a star 10 to 15 times the mass of the Sun, which we would have seen exploding as a supernova 3000 years ago. The remnant's fast-moving gas is ploughing into the surrounding gas of the galaxy, c...