Cassiopeia A composite (IMAGE)

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Cassiopeia A composite

Caption

A composite image of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. It contains X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, optical and infrared data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as ground-based telescopes. Source: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2026/250th/

Credit

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand

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