Chandra's View of Tycho's Supernova Remnant
chandra_135 September 6th, 2002
Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO
Chandra's image reveals the turbulent remains of a supernova explosion that was observed by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the year 1572. The red, green, and blue colors represent low, medium and high X-ray energies, respectively. The image is cut off at the bottom because of an instrumental artifact. A shock wave produced by the expanding debris is outlined by the strikingly sharp blue circular arcs of twenty million degree Celsius gas seen on the outer rim. The stellar debris, which has a temperature of about ten million degrees and is visible only in X-rays, shows up as mottled yellow, green and red fingers of gas.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0005/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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- ID
- 135
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Tycho's Supernova Remnant, G120.1+01.4, SN 1572
- Credits
- NASA/CXC/SAO
- Release Date
- 2002-09-06
- Lightyears
- 13,000
- Redshift
- 13,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0005/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, Chandra, Chandra
- Instrument
- ACIS, ACIS, ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- X-ray, X-ray, X-ray
- Bandpass
- X-ray, X-ray, X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- 1.98, 0.69, 0.26
- Start Time
- 2000-09-20T12:03:20, 2000-09-20T12:03:20, 2000-09-20T12:03:20
- Integration Time
- 49540, 49540, 49540
- Dataset ID
- 115, 115, 115
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 6.3301904, 64.1423256
- Reference Dimension
- 4533.0, 4383.0
- Reference Pixel
- 2267.5, 2192.5
- Scale
- 3.64106e-05, 3.641065e-05
- Rotation
- -0.31
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS retrieved using CXCs PinpointWCS
- Creator (Curator)
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu
- Name
- Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu
- Telephone
- 617.496.7941
- Address
- 60 Garden St.
- City
- Cambridge
- State/Province
- MA
- Postal Code
- 02138
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
- Publisher
- Chandra X-Ray Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- 0005_xray.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0005/0005_xray.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-07-27T16:25:58-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
