NASA's Great Observatories Provide a Detailed View of Kepler's Supernova Remnant
chandra_233 December 10th, 2006
Credit: NASA/ESA/JHU/R.Sankrit & W.Blair
This composite Chandra X-ray (blue and green), Hubble Space Telescope optical (yellow), and Spitzer Space Telescope infrared (red) image shows a cloud of gas and dust that is 14 light years in diameter and expanding at 4 million miles per hour (2,000 kilometers per second). The optical image reveals 10,000 degrees Celsius gas where the supernova shock wave is slamming into the densest regions of surrounding gas. The infrared image highlights microscopic dust particles swept up and heated by the supernova shock wave. The X-ray data show regions with multimillion degree gas, or extremely high energy particles. The higher-energy X-rays (colored blue) come primarily from the regions directly behind the shock front. Lower-energy X-rays (colored green) mark the location of the hot remains of the exploded star.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/kepler/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
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Image Details
Distance
Position Details
Color Mapping
| Telescope | Spectral Band | Wavelength | |
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Chandra (ACIS) | X-ray (Hard X-ray) | 248.0 pm |
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Chandra (ACIS) | X-ray (Soft X-ray) | 826.7 pm |
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Hubble (WFPC2) | Optical (H-alpha) | 656.0 nm |
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Spitzer (IRAC) | Infrared (Mid-IR) | 8.0 µm |
| Multiple image collage; colors correspond to main image; DatasetID refers to Chandra data | |||
- ID
- 233
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4 B.3.1.8
- Subject Name
- Kepler's Supernova Remnant, SN 1604, G004.5+06.8, V 843 Ophiuchi
- Credits
- NASA/ESA/JHU/R.Sankrit & W.Blair
- Release Date
- 2006-12-10
- Lightyears
- 13,000
- Redshift
- 13,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/kepler/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Chandra, Chandra, Hubble, Spitzer
- Instrument
- ACIS, ACIS, WFPC2, IRAC
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Yellow, Red
- Band
- X-ray, X-ray, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- Hard X-ray, Soft X-ray, H-alpha, Mid-IR
- Central Wavelength
- 0.248, 0.8267, 656, 8000
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- 116
- Notes
- M
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 262.672995213582, -21.491993521178529
- Reference Dimension
- 750, 750
- Reference Pixel
- 375, 375
- Scale
- -0.00011065347259054809, 0.00011065347259054809
- Rotation
- 360.60752577020992
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Position
- FITS Header
- Notes
- 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 Observatory Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- kepler_comp_panel.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/kepler/kepler_comp_panel.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-07-30T15:25:44-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
