Kepler's Supernova Remnant, SN 1604, V 843 Ophiuchi, G004.5+06.8

13,000 light-years (4,000 parsecs)

This image is 5 arcminutes (19 light-years or 5.8 parsecs) wide.

This image was created from Chandra observations from proposal 01500022: S. Holt (F.W. Olin College of Engineering), U. Hwang, R. Petre, and M. Corcoran (GSFC), E. Gotthelf (Columbia Astrophysics Lab), G. Allen (Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.), J. Keohane (North Carolina).

The science team using this data is: R. Sankrit and W. Blair (Johns Hopkins Univ.), T. DeLaney (U. Minnesota and Harvard-Smithsonian/Center for Astrophysics), L. Rudnick and J. A. Ennis (U. Minnesota), I. Harrus (Goddard Space Flight Center).

0.3-6 keV

NASA, ESA, R. Sankrit and W. Blair (Johns Hopkins University)