Submitted by chandra on Wed, 02/18/2009 - 18:45.
This composite image of the Tycho supernova remnant combines X-ray and infrared observations obtained with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope, respectively, and the Calar Alto observatory, Spain. It shows the scene more than four centuries after the brilliant star explosion witnessed by Tycho Brahe and other astronomers of that era.
More at http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/tycho/
-Kimberly Arcand, CXC
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