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Cassiopeia A, Supernova Remnant, Composite
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Cassiopeia A, Supernova Remnant, Composite
One of the most famous objects in the sky, the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, will be on display like never before, thanks to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and a new project from the Smithsonian Institution. Scientists have combined data from Chandra, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based facilities to construct a unique 3D model of the 300 year old remains of a stellar explosion that blew a massive star apart, sending the stellar debris rushing into space at millions of miles per hour. The collaboration with this new Smithsonian 3D project will allow the astronomical data collected on Cassiopeia A, or Cas A for short, to be featured and highlighted in an open-access program: a major innovation in digital technologies with public, education, and research based impacts. To coincide with Cas A being featured in this new 3D effort, a specially-processed version of Chandra's data of this supernova remnant is also being released. This new image shows with better clarity the appearance of Cas A in different energy bands, which will aid astronomers in their efforts to reconstruct details of the supernova process such as the size of the star, its chemical makeup, and the explosion mechanism. The color scheme used in this image is the following: low-energy X-rays are red, medium-energy ones are green, and the highest-energy X-rays detected by Chandra are colored blue. Release date November 15, 2013.
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