Cassiopeia A: Cassiopeia A in Many Colors : 無料・フリー素材/写真
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| 説明 | Description: Cas A is the 300-year-old supernova remnant created by the explosion of a massive star. This stunning picture of Cas A is a composite of infrared (red), optical (yellow) and X-ray (green and blue) images. The infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope reveals warm dust in the outer shell with temperatures of about 25 degrees Celsius, whereas the optical image from the Hubble Space telescope brings out the delicate filamentary structures of warmer (10,000 Celsius) gas; Chandra shows hot gases at about 10 million degrees Celsius. This hot gas was created when ejected material from the supernova smashed into surrounding gas and dust at speeds of about ten million miles per hour. A comparison of the infrared and X-ray images of Cas A should enable astronomers to determine whether most of the dust in the supernova remnant came from the massive star before it exploded, or from the rapidly expanding supernova ejecta.Creator/Photographer: Chandra X-ray ObservatoryNASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Medium: Chandra telescope x-rayDate: 2005Persistent URL: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2005/casa/Repository: Smithsonian Astrophysical ObservatoryCollection: Supernovas and Supernova Remnants CollectionGift line: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA/JPL-CaltechAccession number: cassiopeia05 |
| 撮影日 | 2008-09-30 10:28:57 |
| 撮影者 | Smithsonian Institution , United States |
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