Tuesday, January 13, 2015

2.8 apod


The milky way galaxy runs though a beautiful and complex sky. The the NW edge of Veal the frame is 10 degrees wide. Its goal is the get the brightest glowing filaments from the vela supernova remnant. The debris from the cloud from the death explosion. Light from this supernova created the vela remnant reached earth abut 11,000 years ago. The filaments of glowing gas and the chaos left behind a very dense rotating stellar core. This is called the Vela Pulsar, 800 light years away the vela remnant is embedded in gum nebula.
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