Supernova Remnant Menagerie is a colorful cloud of gas and dust believed to be a remnant of an exploded star. This cloud is part of an irregular galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is a satellite of our Milky Way galaxy. The technical term for the region is N 63A.
Location
Let's elaborate on the exact location. Our Milky Way galaxy is orbited by a satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Inside that galaxy is a region called the "large super bubble" or LMC-4. Inside that region is a region called LMC N 63. Inside that region is a supernova LMC N 63A.
What Exploded
The former star is believed to have exploded 2000 to 5000 years ago. It is projected that the former star was 50 times more massive than our Sun. Here's a theory on what happened before the explosion... Such massive stars, as this star is believed to have been, have strong intersellar winds that can form a wind-blowing bubble. This wind-blowing bubble had a central cavity where the star exploded. Don't ask me what this means. I haven't been there, so I don't know.
The Images
The blue image below shows an x-ray data taken by the Chandra telescope, and shows material heated to about 10 million degrees Celsius by an explosion.
An image of the region LMC N 63, inside of which this supernova is located, is also included below.
Sources:
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/15/
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http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_342.html
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