Chandra: G54.1+0.3: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust

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G54.1+0.3: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust (2010 Mar 29)


X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/T.Temim et al.; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech

• A new composite image of Chandra and Spitzer data shows G54.1+0.3, the dusty remains of a collapsed star.
• X-rays from Chandra reveal a wind of high-energy particles from the pulsar at the center of the image.
• The Spitzer data shows an infrared shell around the pulsar that is made of gas and dust that condensed from the supernova.

• X-ray: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2010/g541/g541_w2.jpg
  IR 8μ: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2010/g541/g541_w3.jpg
  IR 24μ: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2010/g541/g541_w4.jpg

CXC: G54.1+0.3: Energetic Ring Marks Spot That Leads to Discovery of Neutron Star (2002 Jun 25)
JPL: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Chandra/Spitzer Image (2010 March 29)
SSC: Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Chandra/Spitzer Image (2010 March 29)

ADS: Deep Chandra Observations of the Crab-like Pulsar Wind Nebula
G54.1+0.3 and Spitzer Spectroscopy of the Associated Infrared Shell