The Aftermath of the Great Supernova in 1987
Hubble Space Telescope
In 1987 a star in one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies exploded. In
1994 the Hubble Space Telescope, in orbit around the earth, took a very
detailed picture of the remnants of this explosion. This picture, above,
showed unusual and unexpected rings,
and astronomers are not sure how they formed.