Amazing pics of supernovas captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory

IC 443 is a supernova remnant, or the debris of an exploded star, which astronomers have nicknamed the Jellyfish Nebula.

Messier 74 is a spiral galaxy (Phantom Galaxy) like our Milky Way, which is seen face-on from Earth’s vantage point some 32 million light-years away. 

This sonification is of MSH 15-52, a cloud of energized particles blown away from a dead, collapsed star. This image includes X-rays from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, (purple) as well as Chandra (orange, green, and blue).

The Green Monster was first spotted in Webb data in April 2023, while Chandra has observed Cas A for decades.

Pulsar wind nebulae are clouds of energetic particles blown away from dead, collapsed stars.

A supernova remnant located about 7,100 light-years from Earth.

The Kepler supernova remnant is the remains of a white dwarf that exploded after undergoing a thermonuclear explosion.

As the galaxy moves through space at 1.5 million miles per hour, it leaves not one — but two — tails behind it. 

The center of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365 contains a supermassive black hole being fed by a steady stream of material. Photos:  NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory