330 years ago, the light from Cassiopeia A exploding into a supernova reached earth. Located in the constellation of Cassiopeia, the supernova remnant is approximately 11,000 light-years away. Previously we showed you some new images from the supernova remnants. Here is an artistic rendition of flying the remains of the supernova.
This visualization shows a fly-through of Cas A based on the 3-D representation constructed from Chandra and Spitzer data. It begins with an artists rendition of the neutron star previously detected by Chandra. Next, new features unseen in traditional 2-D data sets are visible, including details of how the parent star exploded. The green region is mostly iron observed in X-rays; the yellow region is mostly argon and silicon seen in X-rays, optical and infared; the red region is cooler debris seen in the infared and the blue region is the outer blast wave, most prominent in X-rays.
