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Caption: Figure 1.
Chandra X-ray image of G292.0+1.8, showing the O and Ne emission in red (0.580–710 and 0.880–950 keV), Ne in orange (0.980–1.100 keV), Mg in green (1.280–1.430 keV), and Si and S in blue (1.810–2.050 and 2.400–2.620 keV). The PWN is seen in blue, displaced to the southeast of the shell center. The pulsar is indicated by the white arrow. The SNR radius is ∼265″, corresponding to 7.7 pc for a distance of 6.0 kpc. Image credit: NASA/CXC/Park et al. (2007).
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