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January 5, 2012 Celestial Pom-Pom
I am always amazed at the artistry of space.
This is the Tycho supernova remnant.
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.
Image courtesy CXC/NASA
via National Geographic
glatt Thursday Jan 5 11:33 AM
Wow. That's cool!
infinite monkey Thursday Jan 5 11:35 AM
That's really super, supernova! 
Spexxvet Thursday Jan 5 11:49 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 Thursday Jan 5 12:25 PM
Slackers!
jimhelm Thursday Jan 5 12:38 PM
it's only a model
Undertoad Thursday Jan 5 12:40 PM
ssshhh!
jimhelm Thursday Jan 5 12:51 PM
welll.... let's not go there. tis a silly place.
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