Credit: Visualization: NASA/CXC/D.Berry; Model: NASA/CXC/MIT/T.Delaney et al.

This visualization is a three-dimensional model constructed using data from Chandra, Spitzer, and ground-based optical telescopes.

Scientists determined the positions of the different telescopes, represented by the various colors represent, using the Doppler effect. That information was then put into a medical imaging program adapted for astronomical use before commercial software was used to

create the final visualization. This is the first time such a

multiwavelength three-dimensional model of a supernova remnant has

been created.

Provider: Chandra X-ray Observatory

Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/casa2/

Curator: Chandra X-ray Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA

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