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April 26, 2021

Cassiopeia A with layering showing filamentary structures of dust and gas

Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, is a supernova remnant located 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia and is the remnant of a once massive star that died in a violent explosion roughly 340 years ago. This image layers infrared, visible and X-ray data to reveal filamentary structures of dust and gas.

[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants AST 1518052, AST 1815935, AST 1815935, AST 1852268, AST 1518052 and AST 1815935.]

Learn more about this research in the Harvard Center for Astrophysics news story Artificial intelligence classifies supernova explosions with unprecedented accuracy. (Date of image: unknown; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: April 26, 2021)

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/CXC/SAO


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