This remarkable space wallpaper was created from pictures taken by different telescopes in space and on the ground. It shows the thousand-year-old remnant of the brilliant SN 1006 supernova, as seen in radio (red), X-ray (blue) and visible light (yellow). Image released Feb. 14, 2013.
Remnant of Supernova Seen at Many Different Wavelengths Space Wallpaper
This remarkable space wallpaper was created from pictures taken by different telescopes in space and on the ground. It shows the thousand-year-old remnant of the brilliant SN 1006 supernova, as seen in radio (red), X-ray (blue) and visible light (yellow).
(Image: © NRAO/AUI/NSF/GBT/VLA/Dyer, Maddalena/Cornwell, ChandraX-rayObser.; NASA/CXC/Rutgers/G. Cassam-Chenaï, J. Hughes et al., 0.9-metre Curtis Schmidt OT; NOAO/AURA/NSF/CTIO/Middlebury College/F. Winkler, DigitizedSkySurvey.)
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