Cassiopeia A: Death Becomes Her
This false-color image from three of NASA Great Observatories provides one example of a star that died in a fiery supernova blast. Called Cassiopeia A, this supernova remnant is located 10,000 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia.
- Date
- 2005-06-10
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/CXC/SAO<br /> Animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz./STScI/CXC/SAO
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Cassiopeia A: Death Becomes Her" (2005-06-10). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/CXC/SAO<br /> Animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz./STScI/CXC/SAO . Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA03519Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 18112.
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