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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant
NASA ^
| 16 Apr, 2023
| Image Credit: CTIO, NOIRLab, DOE, NSF, AURA; Processing: T. A. Rector (U. Alaska Anchorage), M. Zama
Posted on 04/16/2024 1:28:17 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: The explosion is over, but the consequences continue. About eleven thousand years ago, a star in the constellation of Vela could be seen to explode, creating a strange point of light briefly visible to humans living near the beginning of recorded history. The outer layers of the star crashed into the interstellar medium, driving a shock wave that is still visible today. The featured image captures some of that filamentary and gigantic shock in visible light. As gas flies away from the detonated star, it decays and reacts with the interstellar medium, producing light in many different colors and energy bands. Remaining at the center of the Vela Supernova Remnant is a pulsar, a star as dense as nuclear matter that spins around more than ten times in a single second.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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posted on
04/16/2024 1:28:38 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list
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posted on
04/16/2024 1:29:07 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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a star as dense as nuclear matter I don't know what that means. A neutron star has the mass between 1.4 and 2x the mass of the sun compacted into a diameter of about 12 miles.
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posted on
04/16/2024 1:34:00 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
04/16/2024 1:43:38 PM PDT
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No name given
(Anonymous is who youโll know me as)
To: MtnClimber
Looks more like something inside our bodies.
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A neutron star has the mass between 1.4 and 2x the mass of the sun compacted into a diameter of about 12 miles.So, it's jus' a bunch a gas?
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posted on
04/16/2024 1:50:54 PM PDT
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Bullish
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To: Bullish
And it spinnin so fast it hard to find the flag the asternots left there..
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posted on
04/16/2024 1:52:47 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Well that genius was the chair of the space committee or some such.
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posted on
04/16/2024 1:54:19 PM PDT
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Bullish
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To: MtnClimber
Sometimes the old needs to doe to make room for the new.
Let โem die.
Bring on entrepreneurial beer companies to grow.
To: MtnClimber
As dense as an atomic nucleus. A neutron star (i.e. pulsar) is for the most part a giant atomic nucleus weighing more than the sun, and made up of tightly packed neutrons. The exact density varies from surface to core, but generally is about 100 million tons per cc.
To: Telepathic Intruder
So you need a forklift to move one of those around.
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:05:45 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Sorta looks like what my BIL’s head will look like after Trump wins reelection.
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:19:44 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: MtnClimber
Iโve read that the surface is spinning so fast that the equator is moving about 1/4 the speed of light.
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:23:35 PM PDT
by
Reynoldo
(BurnLootMurder)
To: MtnClimber
There are videos what Vela sound like converting itโs EM jet to sound.
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posted on
04/16/2024 2:30:52 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Telepathic Intruder
As dense as an atomic nucleus. A neutron star (i.e. pulsar) is for the most part a giant atomic nucleus weighing more than the sun, and made up of tightly packed neutrons. The exact density varies from surface to core, but generally is about 100 million tons per cc.So, we could probably never live there?
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posted on
04/16/2024 4:44:10 PM PDT
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Bullish
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To: Bullish
Chuck Norris could live there. No one else.
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