X-Ray View of A Thousand-Year-Old Cosmic Tapestry
chandra_538 April 17th, 2013
Credit: NASA/CXC/Middlebury College/F.Winkler
A long Chandra observation reveals SN 1006 supernova remnant in exquisite detail. By overlapping ten different pointings of Chandra's field-of-view, astronomers have stitched together a cosmic tapestry of the debris field that was created when a white dwarf star exploded, sending its material hurtling into space as seen from Earth over a millennium ago. In this new Chandra image, low, medium, and higher-energy X-rays are colored red, green, and blue respectively. Since SN 1006 belongs to the class of supernovas used to measure the expansion of the Universe, the new Chandra data provide insight into these important objects.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/sn1006/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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- ID
- 538
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- SN 1006
- Credits
- NASA/CXC/Middlebury College/F.Winkler
- Release Date
- 2013-04-17
- Lightyears
- 7,000
- Redshift
- 7,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/sn1006/
- 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
- Soft X-ray, Medium X-ray, Hard X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- 1.76, 1.10, 0.57
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 225.7077010, -41.9356537
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1801.0
- Scale
- 0.000155461, 0.00015546114
- Rotation
- 0.03
- 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 Observatory Center
- Publisher ID
- chandra
- Resource ID
- sn1006.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2013/sn1006/sn1006.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2013-04-17T10:38:40-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
