Starship Asterisk*

starsurfer wrote:

Ann wrote:

MarkBour wrote:Very good color for a spaghetti nebula. I wonder if Ann is going to comment on it.

Eh... it's too red...

Ann

What else do you expect of hydrogen?
Also it does contain some oxygen but hardly any images show this.

Ann wrote:

MarkBour wrote:Very good color for a spaghetti nebula. I wonder if Ann is going to comment on it.

Eh... it's too red...

Ann

RedFishBlueFish wrote:Rather, could this not actually be the intricate, delicate and amazing Nativity of FSM?

Arrgh, even if 'tis not the case, this is a complex, beautiful and captivating image.

Thanks for another Amazing APOD!

Splendid start to the day.

Fred the Cat wrote:I didn't realize the leftovers of today's Astronomy Pasta of the Day were so hot and such a source of cosmic by-products. Does that mean supernovas could tell us as much about the surrounding interstellar medium as it does about the type of star that went "pastal" ?

(Maybe that's a better term which doesn't denigrate all the other USPS workers who keep their cool) Or maybe the remnant just tells us the type of ravioli that blew its cool?

zendae wrote:the glowing gas filaments cover nearly 3 degrees -- 6 full moons -- on the sky.

I have read similar descriptions for other objects in the cosmos.
Is there a nice, poster-quality artists' rendition of how the night sky might look to us if all these phenomena spanning perhaps >= .5 degrees were visible? Let's say lightly visible to reduce the appearance of an overly garish sky.

MarkBour wrote:Very good color for a spaghetti nebula. I wonder if Ann is going to comment on it.

DL MARTIN CANADA wrote:if the light from the remnant reached earth 40,000 years ago then one must qualify any conclusion regarding the state of the remnant with a 3,000 year rider.

heehaw wrote:
SR J0538+2817 is the pulsar. I wonder just where in the image is 5 hr 28 minutes +28 degrees 17 minutes?

• Near Elnath, a shared star of Taurus & Auriga.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Tauri wrote:

[b][color=#0000FF]Being on the horns of a dilemma: ELNATH: Beta Tauri & Gamma Aurigae.[/color][/b]

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Elnath, β Tau
Right ascension 05h 26m 17.5134s
Declination 28° 36′ 27.494″
Apparent magnitude (V) 1.65
Distance 131 ± 5 ly

<<Beta Tauri (β Tau, β Tauri) is the second brightest star in the constellation Taurus, with an apparent magnitude of 1.68. Ptolemy considered Beta Tauri to be shared by Auriga, and Bayer assigned it a designation in both constellations: Beta Tauri (β Tau) and Gamma Aurigae (γ Aur). When the modern constellation boundaries were fixed in 1930, the latter designation dropped from use. Beta Tauri has the traditional name Elnath, El Nath, or Alnath, which comes from the Arabic word النطح an-naţħ, meaning "the butting" (i.e. of the bull's horns).

Uniquely positioned along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy a few degrees west of the galactic anticenter, Elnath heralds a rich collection of nebulae and star clusters. Relative to our Sun, β Tauri is notable for a high abundance of manganese, but little calcium and magnesium. This star has begun to evolve away from the main sequence.>>

DL MARTIN CANADA wrote:
IF THE REMANT IS 40,000 YEAR'S OLD AND IT TAKES 3,000 YEARS FOR THE IT'S LIGHT TO REACH EARTH, THEN WOULDN'T IT BE A COMBINED TOTAL OF 43,000 YEARS BEFORE THE LIGHT REACHED EARTH AND NOT THE STATED 40,000 YEARS?

The supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years,
meaning light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth about 40,000 years ago.