Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Vela Supernova Remnant

NASA ^ | January 01, 2015 | (see photo credit)

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Explanation: The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy runs through this complex and beautiful skyscape. At the northwestern edge of the constellation Vela (the Sails) the telescopic frame is over 10 degrees wide, centered on the brightest glowing filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant, an expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the supernova explosion that created the Vela remnant reached Earth about 11,000 years ago. In addition to the shocked filaments of glowing gas, the cosmic catastrophe also left behind an incredibly dense, rotating stellar core, the Vela Pulsar. Some 800 light-years distant, the Vela remnant is likely embedded in a larger and older supernova remnant, the Gum Nebula.

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[Credit and Copyright: CEDIC Team; Processing: Wolfgang Leitner]

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2015 APoD Calendar

Pepto Ping!

The Big One

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[onyx]

Thank you so much.
God bless.

[frithguild]

Coincides temporally with the Holocene megafauna extinction

[TheOldLady]

That looks like a giant screaming clown or monkey. I wonder if that’s where
“It” came from in Stephen King’s brain. It is certainly an interesting image.

I hope it doesn’t eat all the s’mores. I like s’mores.

Thank you so much, Mr. Civilizations.

Happy New Year, too!

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:’)

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Thanks, that could give me an excuse for pinging this for catastrophism as well. :’)