This stunning picture of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A is a composite of images taken by three of NASA's Great Observatories. Infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are coloured red; optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are yellow; and X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are green and blue.
這張令人嘆為觀止的超新星殘骸Cassiopeia A的圖片是美國宇航局三個大天文臺各自的圖片拼合而成的。Spitzer太空望遠(yuǎn)鏡的紅外線數(shù)據(jù)顯示為紅色,哈勃太空望遠(yuǎn)鏡的光學(xué)數(shù)據(jù)顯示為黃色,而錢德拉天文臺的X射線數(shù)據(jù)則是綠色和藍(lán)色。