Possible Supernova Remnant in Galactic Center

Explanation: Do you see that blue blob to the lower right of the image center? Astronomers think that it shows where a massive star exploded as a supernova whose light reached Earth 1,700 years ago . The image combines optical data from the PanSTARRS telescopes in Hawaii (background stars in red, green, and blue), radio from the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa (large red cloud) and X-rays from NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA ’s XMM-Newton (shown in blue). The large cloud is a star forming region called Sagittarius C , which is approximately 50 light-years in extent and about 26,000 light-years from Earth . It is located only about 260 light-years from the supermassive black hole in the center of the Galaxy (off to the left of the image). If the blue blob is confirmed to be a supernova remnant , it would be one of the closest ever discovered to the Galactic Center . In this dense region , the deaths of massive stars are connected to the birth of new stars through gas and magnetic fields in a complex way.