N132D is the remnant of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) which we see about 3 thousand years after its supernova explosion. In this time the explosion cloud has expanded to a diameter of 80 light years. It is so hot that it is sending X-rays as seen on this image taken with the pn X-ray camera onboard XMM-Newton. The data of this camera contain not even position but also spectral informations. It can be conculde from the X-ray spectrum (blue graph) that the mean temperature is about 10 million degrees. The visible emission lines of the spectrum provide information about the chemical composition of the explosion cloud as well as the temperature and velocity of the correspondent elements. Due to the imaging properties and the enormous sensitivity of XMM-Newton such investigations can be done even for sub-areas of the explosion cloud allowing conclusions how the explosion had happened in detail.

ROSAT (Röntgensatellit) 2001
Images from the X-ray sky taken with ROSAT, XMM-Newton, and Chandra · The 11^th ROSAT Calendar since 1991
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Supernova Remnant N132D