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Astronomers discover a Large Cavity around the Tycho’s Supernova

Astronomers discover a large cavity around the Tycho's supernova

The large-field WISE [12–4.6] µm infrared image around the Tycho’s supernova remnant (SNR). The red circle shows the position and size of the shell-like structure in the Tycho’s SNR, while the yellow dashed ellipse shows the cavity found in the MWISP CO images. The three white dashed lines are shown to guide the eye for the stream-like structures seen in the CO images. The white arrows mark the positions of the pillar-like structures found in the WISE image. Credit: Chen et al., 2016.

Chinese astronomers have detected a large cavity existing around Tycho’s supernova, SN 1572, exhibiting stream-like structures. The findings show that the environments of the supernovae may be much more complicated than previously thought...

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