Saturday, September 02, 2006

ESA - Space Science - Cassiopeia A - The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death

ESA - Space Science - Cassiopeia A - The colourful aftermath of a violent stellar death

The image is a composite made from 18 separate images taken using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), and it shows the Cas A remnant as a broken ring of bright filamentary and clumpy stellar ejecta, showing the complex and intricate structure of the star’s shattered fragments.

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