WISE Captures an Infrared Shock Wave
This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
>From a JPL press release:
A circular rainbow appears like a halo around an exploded star in this new view of the IC 443 nebula from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. (…) Read the rest of WISE Captures an Infrared Shock Wave (246 words)
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