Glowing Remnant from a Star-Shattering Explosion
chandra_124 May 22nd, 2002
Credit: NASA/SAO/CXC
Chandra's "true color" image of N132D shows a beautiful, complex remnant of the explosion of a massive star. The colors represent different ranges of X-rays, with red, green, and blue representing, low, medium, and higher X-ray energies. The horseshoe shape of the remnant is thought to be due to shock waves from the collision of the supernova ejecta with cool giant gas clouds. As the shock waves move through the gas they heat it to millions of degrees, producing the glowing X-ray shell.
Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0050/
Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Image Use Policy: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
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Image Details
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Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- 124
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- N132D, SNR 0525-69.6
- Credits
- NASA/SAO/CXC
- Release Date
- 2002-05-22
- Lightyears
- 160,000
- Redshift
- 160,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0050/
- 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
- -, -, -
- Start Time
- 2000-07-20T06:28:59, 2000-07-20T06:28:59, 2000-07-20T06:28:59
- Integration Time
- 73930, 73930, 73930
- Dataset ID
- 1828, 1828, 1828
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 81.2680422, -69.6403072
- Reference Dimension
- 2100.0, 2100.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1051.0, 1051.0
- Scale
- 2.0441e-05, 2.0441015e-05
- Rotation
- 0.00
- 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
- 0050_xray.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0050/0050_xray.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-08-04T15:00:30-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
