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Anne’s Picture of the Day: The Spaghetti Nebula
read more at Anne’s Astronomy News http://annesastronomynews.com/
January 27, 2013
The Spaghetti Nebula, a supernova remnant in Taurus
Image Credit: Digitized Sky Survey, ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Liberator
Color Composite: Davide De Martin (Skyfactory)
The Spaghetti Nebula (designated Simeis 147 and Sh2-240) is an extremely faint, fairly large supernova remnant of about of 150 light-years across, located some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus.
The violent stellar explosion that created the Spaghetti Nebula left behind all that remains of the original star’s core: a spinning neutron star known as pulsar PSR J0538+2817, surrounded by intricate filaments of material.
This expanding remnant has an expansion rate of about 950 kilometers (nearly 600 miles) per second, and is approximately 40,000 years old.
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2013-01-27 04:46:31
Source: http://annesastronomynews.com/annes-picture-of-the-day-the-spaghetti-nebula/
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