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Astronomy Picture of the Day
NASA ^
| 6/30/10
| NASA
Posted on 06/30/2010 8:52:19 AM PDT by sig226
Fast Gas Bullet from Cosmic Blast N49
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/S. Park et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI/UIUC/Y. H. Chu & R. Williams et al.
Explanation: What is that strange blue blob on the far right? No one is sure, but it might be a speeding remnant of a powerful supernova that was unexpectedly lopsided. Scattered debris from supernova explosion N49 lights up the sky in this gorgeous composited image based on data from the Chandra and Hubble Space Telescopes. Glowing visible filaments, shown in yellow, and X-ray hot gas, shown in blue, span about 30 light-years in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Light from the original exploding star reached Earth thousands of years ago, but N49 also marks the location of another energetic outburst -- an extremely intense blast of gamma-rays detected by satellites about 30 years ago on 1979 March 5. The source of the March 5th Event is now attributed to a magnetar - a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star also born in the ancient stellar explosion which created supernova remnant N49. The magnetar, visible near the top of the image, hurtles through the supernova debris cloud at over 70 thousand kilometers per hour. The blue blob on the far right, however, might have been expelled asymmetrically just as a massive star was exploding. If so, it now appears to be moving over 7 million kilometers per hour.
TOPICS: Astronomy Picture of the Day
KEYWORDS: apod; catastrophism; falsecolor
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:52:26 AM PDT
by
sig226
To: null and void; fnord; Number57; KevinDavis; rdb3; MNJohnnie; RightWhale; proudofthesouth; ...
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:54:30 AM PDT
by
sig226
(Mourn this day, the death of a great republic. March 21, 2010)
To: sig226
The Borg! The Borg is coming!
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posted on
06/30/2010 8:57:35 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: sig226
Fast Gas Bullet?
Would You care to elaborate on that? LOL?
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:02:24 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(Your Mi'KMaq Paddy Whacky Bass Playing Biker Buddy)
To: brytlea
They’ve already here, they’re called Democrats.
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:05:26 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: brytlea
They’re already here, they’re called Democrats.
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:05:36 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: fieldmarshaldj
I can’t remember what happens to those who don’t get absorbed....
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:08:01 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: brytlea
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:10:17 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Drat, that’s the worst thing ever!
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:24:11 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Drat, that’s the worst thing ever!
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:24:57 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: sig226
Say 10 light years downrange and still 7 million kilometers per hour. I wonder what the “muzzle velocity” was.
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posted on
06/30/2010 9:43:18 AM PDT
by
AZ .44 MAG
(Our government is a joke and its current makeup is the punch line.)
To: sig226
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth twentieth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water... Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."
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posted on
06/30/2010 10:42:33 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
To: left that other site
Wendy’s chili with cheese on it. You want to be in another galaxy after I eat that.
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posted on
07/01/2010 5:56:09 AM PDT
by
sig226
(Mourn this day, the death of a great republic. March 21, 2010)
To: The_Victor
I fear no alien invaders. I am prepared. If you liked the seawater at the end of Day of the Triffids, or the Indian Love Call in Mars Attacks, you should see what happens re: post 13.
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posted on
07/01/2010 6:06:59 AM PDT
by
sig226
(Mourn this day, the death of a great republic. March 21, 2010)
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
Note: this topic is from June 30, 2010. Thanks sig226.
What is that strange blue blob on the far right? No one is sure, but it might be a speeding remnant of a powerful supernova that was unexpectedly lopsided.
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posted on
09/17/2010 8:55:01 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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