A Gallery of Cosmic Fireworks
Submitted by chandra on Wed, 2013-07-03 16:39Note: An earlier version of this article appeared on this blog by Peter Edmonds.
Last week at the Chandra X-ray Center we celebrated July 4th a week early with this new image of cosmic fireworks. This is G1.9+0.3, the youngest remains - as seen from Earth - of any supernova in our galaxy. If gas and dust had not heavily obscured it, the supernova would have been visible from Earth just over a century ago.