Friday, March 21, 2014

Three Great Eyes on Keplers Supernova Remnant

A View Through Three Great Eyes: Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra X-ray

This widget features a beautiful, color-rich image from the NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection. It is a view of the expanding remains of a supernova, called Keplers supernova remnant, first seen 400 years ago by sky watchers, including astronomer Johannes Kepler. The combined image unveils a bubble-shaped shroud of gas and dust that is 14 light-years wide and is expanding at 4 million miles per hour (2,000 kilometers per second). ~ NASA


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