domingo, 20 de noviembre de 2011

[Image] Awesome Beauty of a Cosmic Fossil


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In the supernova remnant W49B, Suzaku found fossil fireball. It detected X-rays produced when heavily ionized iron atoms recapture an electron. This view combines infrared images from the ground (red, green) with X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue).
Image Credit: Caltech/SSC/J. Rho and T. Jarrett and NASA/CXC/SSC/J. Keohane et al.
Source: The Daily Galaxy

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