.This photo, released on Feb. 24, 2017, presents Supernova 1987a (center) bordered through remarkable red clouds of gas and dust within the Big Magellanic Cloud. This supernova, 1st found out on Feb. 23, 1987, blazed with the power of one hundred million Suns. Because that first sighting, SN 1987A has remained to attract astronomers along with its stunning light show. Situated in the neighboring Huge Magellanic Cloud, it was actually the nearest supernova explosion noted in centuries and also the very best possibility yet for astronomers to research the periods before, during, as well as after the fatality of a superstar.Graphic credit report: NASA, ESA, R. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Facility for Astrophysics and Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), and M. Mutchler as well as R. Avila (STScI).