The end for the star they happen to is not the only destructive phenomena. A black hole or a neutron star can be created when a star runs out of fuel and explodes in a huge amount of energy. The explosion can leave behind a beautiful remnant that was created by the shock wave.
The Hubble Space Telescope team recently released an image of a remnant of a supernova. This delicate structure is formed from dust and gas ejected from the star by the force of the blast, captured by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument.
The Hubble scientists write that the object is thought to have been created by a Type 1a supernova during the death throes of a white dwarf. The accretion of matter continues until the white dwarf reaches a critical mass and undergoes a catastrophic supernova explosion.
This remnant is located in a small satellite of the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The LMC is not obscured by a lot of dust and is a good place to look at star evolution.
According to the Hubble team, the LMC is an ideal natural laboratory where astronomy can study the births, lives, and deaths of stars, as this region is nearby, oriented towards Earth, and contains relatively little light-absorbing interstellar dust.
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