IC 443: What Spawned the Jellyfish Nebula?
chandra_614 December 10th, 2015
Credit: Wide Field Optical: Focal Pointe Observatory/B.Franke, Inset: X-ray: NASA/CXC /MSFC/D.Swartz et al, Inset: Optical: DSS, SARA
The Jellyfish Nebula is the remnant of a supernova that occurred over 10,000 years ago in our galaxy. New Chandra observations show that a peculiar object located on the southern edge of the remnant is likely a pulsar and may have formed in the explosion that created the Jellyfish Nebula. This new composite image shows the spectacular filamentary structure of IC 443 in a wide-field view from an amateur astrophotographer. Within the inset box, another optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey (red, green, orange, and cyan) has been combined with X-ray data from Chandra (blue). The inset shows a close-up view of the region around the pulsar candidate.
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Image Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/ic443/
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| Telescope | Spectral Band | Wavelength | |
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Focal Pointe Observatory (Takahashi FSQ-106ED) | Optical (SII) | 673.0 nm |
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Focal Pointe Observatory (Takahashi FSQ-106ED) | Optical (Ha) | 656.0 nm |
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Focal Pointe Observatory (Takahashi FSQ-106ED) | Optical (OIII) | 437.0 nm |
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Chandra (ACIS) | X-ray (X-ray) | 826.7 pm |
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DSS (DSS2R) | Optical (R-band) | 660.0 nm |
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DSS (DSS2IR) | Optical (IR-band) | 798.0 nm |
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SARA (0.9m Kitt Peak) | Optical (H-alpha) | 656.0 nm |
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SARA (0.9m Kitt Peak) | Optical (OIII) | 437.0 nm |
| First three entries in each field describe the wide field image. | |||
- ID
- 614
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- IC 443
- Credits
- Wide Field Optical: Focal Pointe Observatory/B.Franke, Inset: X-ray: NASA/CXC /MSFC/D.Swartz et al, Inset: Optical: DSS, SARA
- Release Date
- 2015-12-10
- Lightyears
- 5,000
- Redshift
- 5,000
- Reference Url
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/ic443/
- Type
- Collage
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Focal Pointe Observatory, Focal Pointe Observatory, Focal Pointe Observatory, Chandra, DSS, DSS, SARA, SARA
- Instrument
- Takahashi FSQ-106ED, Takahashi FSQ-106ED, Takahashi FSQ-106ED, ACIS, DSS2R, DSS2IR, 0.9m Kitt Peak, 0.9m Kitt Peak
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue, Blue, Cyan, Orange, Red, Green
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, X-ray, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- SII, Ha, OIII, X-ray, R-band, IR-band, H-alpha, OIII
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 656, 437, 0.8267, 660, 798, 656, 437
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- F
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 94.2355207, 22.5133560
- Reference Dimension
- 3600.0, 3600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1801.0, 1801.0
- Scale
- 0.0003342, 0.00033419964
- Rotation
- 0.28
- 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
- ic443.tif
- Resource URL
- http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2015/ic443/ic443.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-12-14T17:14:49-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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