Kepler's Supernova Remnant - Zoom-In
This "zoom" starts in the Scorpius constellation and pushes through deeper and narrower telescopic fields to at last reach Kepler's Supernova Remnant, a composite of images from NASA s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope.
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