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LMC N49
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Coordinates: 05h 26m 01.00s, -66° 05' 06.0?
LMC N49
Supernova remnant
Observation data: J2000.0 epoch
Right ascension
05h 26m 01.00s
Declination
-66° 05' 06.0?
Distance
160,000 ly
Physical characteristics
Dimensions
75 ly across
Designations
LMC N49, PKS 0525-66, PKS B0525-661, PKS J0525-6604, SNR J052559-660453
See also: Lists of nebulae
Wikimedia Commons has media related to N49.
N49 or LMC N49 (PKS 0525-66, PKS B0525-661, PKS J0525-6604, SNR J052559-660453) is the brightest supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 160,000 light-years from Earth. It has been assessed to be roughly 5,000 years old.The latest pictures of N49 by the Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed a bullet-shaped object traveling at about 5 million miles an hour away from a bright X-ray and gamma-ray point source, probably a neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field, known as a soft gamma repeater. A particularly strong gamma-ray burst from LMC N49 was detected on March 5, 1979.
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