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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Simeis 147: The Spaghetti Nebula Supernova Remnant
NASA ^
| 7 Jan, 2025
| Image Credit & Copyright: Saverio Ferretti
Posted on 01/07/2026 12:29:51 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Its popular nickname is the Spaghetti Nebula. Officially cataloged as Simeis 147 and Sharpless 2-240, it is easy to get lost following the looping and twisting filaments of this intricate supernova remnant. Seen toward the boundary of the constellations of the Bull (Taurus) and the Charioteer (Auriga), the impressive gas structure covers nearly 3 degrees on the sky, equivalent to 6 full moons. That's about 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. The supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years, meaning light from this powerful stellar explosion first reached the Earth when woolly mammoths roamed free. Besides the expanding remnant, this cosmic catastrophe left behind a pulsar, a fast-spinning neutron star that is the remnant of the original star's core. The featured image was captured last month from Forca Canapine, Italy.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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01/07/2026 12:30:16 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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Looks like a tumor I once had...................
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01/07/2026 12:30:54 PM PST
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Red Badger
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Pinging the APOD list
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01/07/2026 12:31:06 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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01/07/2026 12:35:40 PM PST
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NavyShoe
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Whatever was wrong with me being able to access APOD seems to have fixed itself.
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posted on
01/07/2026 12:41:10 PM PST
by
Repeal The 17th
(Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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posted on
01/07/2026 12:46:31 PM PST
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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thank you.
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posted on
01/07/2026 12:53:44 PM PST
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Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: Red Badger
Looks like my brain...on drugs.
To: Repeal The 17th
Whatever was wrong with me being able to access APOD seems to have fixed itself. I wonder what it was.
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01/07/2026 1:07:11 PM PST
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MtnClimber
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Whatever was wrong with me being able to access APOD seems to have fixed itself.I wonder what it was.
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posted on
01/07/2026 1:10:25 PM PST
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Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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posted on
01/07/2026 2:05:47 PM PST
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No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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01/07/2026 2:05:57 PM PST
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No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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posted on
01/07/2026 2:48:49 PM PST
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telescope115
(Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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Looks like an alien brain.
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01/09/2026 9:42:36 PM PST
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minnesota_bound
(Making money now. Still want much more.)
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