Chandra 3-Color X-ray Image of N 63A
Chandra's image of N63A shows material heated to about ten million degrees Celsius by a shock wave generated by the supernova explosion. The fluffy crescent-shaped X-ray features that appear around the edge of the remnant are thought to be fragments of high-speed matter shot out from the star when it exploded, like shrapnel from a bomb. The colours red, green and blue in the image correspond to low, medium and high-energy X-rays, respectively. The image is 112 arcsec per side
Credit:
NASA/CXC/Rutgers/J.Warren et al.
About the Image
NASA caption
| Id: | heic0507e |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 7 June 2005, 15:00 |
| Related releases: | heic0507 |
| Size: | 1875 x 1875 px |
About the Object
| Name: | DEM L 243, LHA 120-N 63A, SNR 0535-66.0 |
| Type: | • Local Universe : Nebula : Type : Supernova Remnant |
| Distance: | 150000 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| X-ray High energy X-ray |
Chandra |
| X-ray Medium energy X-ray |
Chandra |
| X-ray Low energy X-ray |
Chandra |
