The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and is located around 160,000 light years away from our solar system. This relative proximity makes it an ideal laboratory for studying cosmic explosions and stellar evolutionary processes. Supernovae as the exploding final stages of stars play an important role here. They catapult large amounts of matter in something known as…
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