by kovil » Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:07 pm
"If we aren't falling off a cliff often, we're being too conservative." DARPA
Explanation: This symmetric cloud dubbed the Boomerang Nebula was created by a high-speed wind of gas and dust blowing from an aging central star at speeds of nearly 600,000 kilometers per hour. The rapid expansion has cooled molecules in the nebular gas to about one degree above absolute zero - colder than even the cosmic background radiation - making it the coldest known region in the distant Universe. Shining with light from the central star reflected by dust, the frigid Boomerang Nebula is believed to be a star or stellar system evolving toward the planetary nebula phase. This Hubble image was recorded using polarizing filters (analogous to polariod sunglasses) and color coded by the angle associated with the polarized light. The gorgeous result traces the small dust particles responsible for polarizing and scattering the light. The Boomerang Nebula spans about one light year and lies about 5,000 light years away toward the constellation Centaurus.
Explanation: This symmetric arrangement called the Z-Pinch Nebula was created by an intense magnetic field which resulted from interstellar electrical currents focusing on the star at the vortex of the symmetry. The glowing plasma isn’t exactly moving rapidly, it is fluorescing from the currents. Why the current is flowing into the star is not fully understood yet, but is theorized to happen due to the intense gravity creating an anode + electrical potential in the star, which then attracts interstellar electrons. The resulting massive current flow makes the surrounding plasma glow and then also develops a magnetic field which gathers the plasma into the shape we see. The surrounding electric field also drives + ions away from the star simultaneously in a stellar wind effect. By using polarizing lens filters the individual preponderances of light scattering particles, or wave function interaction nodes, becomes apparent by angular resolution. At a width of one light year, this is a very large scale structure for one star to produce. At a distance of 5,000 light years it is reasonably close. Eta Carinae is 7,500 light years distant and in a somewhat similar state of development. The Z-Pinch effect is strongly present there as well, tho Eta is experiencing puff-off ‘s of material, and is likely either more massive or more developed through a longer time period.
Peer reviewed papers for footnote references to be supplied later thru blue highlighted words, when I’ve had the time to figure out how to do that. Where’s a person to accumulate a stable of university students to do a lot of the work?
"If we aren't falling off a cliff often, we're being too conservative." DARPA
Explanation: This symmetric cloud dubbed the Boomerang Nebula was created by a high-speed wind of gas and dust blowing from an aging central star at speeds of nearly 600,000 kilometers per hour. The rapid expansion has cooled molecules in the nebular gas to about one degree above absolute zero - colder than even the cosmic background radiation - making it the coldest known region in the distant Universe. Shining with light from the central star reflected by dust, the frigid Boomerang Nebula is believed to be a star or stellar system evolving toward the planetary nebula phase. This Hubble image was recorded using polarizing filters (analogous to polariod sunglasses) and color coded by the angle associated with the polarized light. The gorgeous result traces the small dust particles responsible for polarizing and scattering the light. The Boomerang Nebula spans about one light year and lies about 5,000 light years away toward the constellation Centaurus.
Explanation: This symmetric arrangement called the Z-Pinch Nebula was created by an intense magnetic field which resulted from interstellar electrical currents focusing on the star at the vortex of the symmetry. The glowing plasma isn’t exactly moving rapidly, it is fluorescing from the currents. Why the current is flowing into the star is not fully understood yet, but is theorized to happen due to the intense gravity creating an anode + electrical potential in the star, which then attracts interstellar electrons. The resulting massive current flow makes the surrounding plasma glow and then also develops a magnetic field which gathers the plasma into the shape we see. The surrounding electric field also drives + ions away from the star simultaneously in a stellar wind effect. By using polarizing lens filters the individual preponderances of light scattering particles, or wave function interaction nodes, becomes apparent by angular resolution. At a width of one light year, this is a very large scale structure for one star to produce. At a distance of 5,000 light years it is reasonably close. Eta Carinae is 7,500 light years distant and in a somewhat similar state of development. The Z-Pinch effect is strongly present there as well, tho Eta is experiencing puff-off ‘s of material, and is likely either more massive or more developed through a longer time period.
Peer reviewed papers for footnote references to be supplied later thru blue highlighted words, when I’ve had the time to figure out how to do that. Where’s a person to accumulate a stable of university students to do a lot of the work?