Celestial Bauble (SNR B0509-67.5) Tapestry space Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

it is one of the brightest radio sources in the whole sky

while the cooler pillars are yellow from the combined light of hydrogen and nitrogen

NGC 2023 is classified as a reflection nebula

The 870-micron submillimetre data

Celestial Bauble (SNR B0509-67.5) Tapestry space Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLAThis delicate shell, photographed by the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope, appears to float serenely in the depths of space, but this apparent calm hides an inner turmoil. The gaseous envelope formed as the expanding blast wave and ejected material from a supernova tore through the nearby interstellar medium. Called SNR B0509 67. 5 (or SNR 0509 for short), the bubble is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud