Tycho Supernova Remnant in X-rays (IMAGE)

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Tycho Supernova Remnant in X-rays

Caption

This is a photograph of the Tycho supernova remnant taken by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Low-energy X-rays (red) in the image show expanding debris from the supernova explosion and high energy X-rays (blue) show the blast wave, a shell of extremely energetic electrons.

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X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/K. Eriksen et al.; Optical (starry background): DSS

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