oh my gosh how beautiful and yes... what are those concentric images.. the birth of a star?Saw this today from the Chandra images released lately. The concentric images in the midst of the crab nebula is intriguing.
View attachment 86461
oh my gosh how beautiful and yes... what are those concentric images.. the birth of a star?Saw this today from the Chandra images released lately. The concentric images in the midst of the crab nebula is intriguing.
View attachment 86461
oh my gosh how beautiful and yes... what are those concentric images.. the birth of a star?
It’s actually the opposite - the death of a star. The Crab Nebula is the remains of a supernova that happened 1000 years ago. The amazing thing is that with stars this is like a seed sprouting - almost everything we are made of on earth was made inside stars that explode like this and spread themselves across space. The shock makes surrounding gas collapse and form new solar systems that include all the precious elements from the supernova that are mixed in - and so a new generation of stars are formed from the old ones.oh my gosh how beautiful and yes... what are those concentric images.. the birth of a star?
It’s actually the opposite - the death of a star. The Crab Nebula is the remains of a supernova that happened 1000 years ago. The amazing thing is that with stars this is like a seed sprouting - almost everything we are made of on earth was made inside stars that explode like this and spread themselves across space. The shock makes surrounding gas collapse and form new solar systems that include all the precious elements from the supernova that are mixed in - and so a new generation of stars are formed from the old ones.
I think what’s in the middle of the picture is a pulsar- a neutron star - shooting jets out from its poles. Around it are strong magnetic fields that shape electrically charged hot gas into lovely geometric shapes by the rapidly rotating pulsar. Further out is the chaotic swirl of gas from the ancient explosion.
Wait until you see what the James Webb is going to show us in a few months. Why a few months?How beautiful the Universe is! Thank you for explaining! So cool!
Yeah I actually can't wait.Wait until you see what the James Webb is going to show us in a few months. Why a few months?
Well, once we get into the insertion orbit, then they can begin to calibrate the cameras and spectrometers and whateverelse-o-meters. But I don’t want to get ahead of everything, let’s get into that L2 first cause that’s the next important milestone.
It does sound chaotic.There's still some childish reality.
Beauty.View attachment 28719 my goal is to see the milky way with my own eyes, too.. this was taken not too far from my house. one day i'll see it.
Great video @Wyote - I love the idea of a rotating black hole dragging space and time around like ribbons on a maypole. And then shooting them off into a cascade of other universes.
It makes a belief in magic or the paranormal seem quite tame in comparison lol.
That's a great comparison shot - an amazing level of detail isn't it? They always find something totally new and unexpected with each big increase in telescope power, so it'll be really exciting to see what it discovers these next few years.