SNR , Supernova Remnant, X-Ray
The Chandra image of SNR 0509 shows soft green and blue hues of heated material from the X-ray data surrounded by the glowing pink optical shell which shows the ambient gas being shocked by the expanding blast wave from the supernova. Ripples in the shell's appearance coincide with brighter areas of the X-ray data. SNR is a supernova remnant located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way about 160,000 light years away. The Type 1a supernova that resulted in the creation of SNR occurred nearly 400 years ago for Earth viewers. The supernova remnant, and its progenitor star reside in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. The bubble-shaped shroud of gas is 23 light-years across and is expanding at more than 11 million miles per hour (5,000 kilometers per second). Release date December 14, 2010.
Size: 4200px × 3267px
Photo credit: © Photo Researchers / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: -ray, , 1a, 2010, 21st, astronomical, astronomy, body, burst, celestial, century, chandra, cloud, cxc, deep, detection, dwarf, emission, exploding, explosion, galaxy, heavenly, image, irregular, large, lmc, magellanic, object, observation, observatory, radiation, remnant, science, sky, sn, snr, space, star, stellar, supernova, type
