January 5, 2012 Celestial Pom-Pom

CaliforniaMama · 01-05-2012, 10:14 AM

I am always amazed at the artistry of space.

This is the Tycho supernova remnant.

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The puffy cloud of debris is all that's left of a massive star that exploded some 13,000 light-years away. Light from the powerful blast reached Earth in 1572, making the object briefly visible to the naked eye, even during the day.

The new composite picture shows low-energy x-rays in red and high-energy x-rays in blue. It also reveals, for the first time, bright x-ray stripes—seen in white along the right edge of the remnant—supporting theories that supernovae are sources of high-speed particles known as cosmic rays.

(Find out why the Tycho remnant is also sometimes called a zombie star.)

Image courtesy CXC/NASA
via National Geographic

glatt · 01-05-2012, 10:33 AM

Wow. That's cool!

infinite monkey · 01-05-2012, 10:35 AM

That's really super, supernova!

Spexxvet · 01-05-2012, 10:49 AM

It's interesting that the light reached Earth in 1572, but the x-rays are just getting here now, or are still getting here.

HungLikeJesus · 01-05-2012, 11:25 AM

Slackers!

jimhelm · 01-05-2012, 11:38 AM

it's only a model

Undertoad · 01-05-2012, 11:40 AM

ssshhh!

jimhelm · 01-05-2012, 11:51 AM

welll.... let's not go there. tis a silly place.

01-05-2012, 10:49 AM	#4
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	It's interesting that the light reached Earth in 1572, but the x-rays are just getting here now, or are still getting here. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

01-05-2012, 11:25 AM	#5
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Slackers! __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

01-05-2012, 11:38 AM	#6
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	it's only a model __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

01-05-2012, 11:51 AM	#8
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	welll.... let's not go there. tis a silly place. __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

01-05-2012, 10:33 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Wow. That's cool!

01-05-2012, 10:35 AM	#3
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	That's really super, supernova!

01-05-2012, 11:40 AM	#7
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	ssshhh!

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