In October of 1604, the famed astronomer Johannes Kepler saw a supernova before his very eyes; this namesake stuck to the remnant. While this explosion of celestial wonder baffled the olden times astronomer and his contemporaries, modern day astronomers are taking advantage of their technological advantage and looking at the nebula in all spectra. This photograph in particular shows the false coloured X-Ray image of it. The cause of this supernova has been deemed a white dwarf in a mass transfer system with a red giant, its binary partner who aided the former star in exceeding Chandrasekhar's limit.
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