Posts Tagged ‘supernova remnant’
Kangaroo Supernova
Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Penn State/S.Park & J.Lee); IR (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
A purple kangaroo lurks in a background of stars in this image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
New face of a supernova
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Williams (NCSU)
The outline of a face show the remains of the oldest documented supernova in this infrared image of RCW 86 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Cyrano de Supernova
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Texas/S.Park et al, ROSAT; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF
With a blob of gas bulging from the side, supernova remnant G299.2–2.9 looks like a celestial Cyrano de Bergerac in this image from NASA’s orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Flying Dust
NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Dust from the remains of a collapsed star flies past a nearby family of stars in this image from NASA’s Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes.
A Glowing Pencil
Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A stellar shockwave from a supernova 11,000 years ago forms a line in space reminding many observers on Earth of a pencil.
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