NASA X-Ray Mission Gets Fresh Look at 2,000-Year-Old Supernova

NASA’s IXPE observed the outer rim of the supernova remnant highlighted in purple in the inset. Data from IXPE is combined with data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. The yellow represents low-energy X-rays, while blue shows high-energy X-rays detected by Chandra and XMM-Newton. The starfield in the image comes from the National Science Foundation’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOILab).

NASA/ X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO, XMM: ESA/XMM-NEWTON...