Supernova Explosion

Four hundred year old supernova

Optical data of the supernova remnant and its accompanying star field, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, are composited with X-ray images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The supernova that resulted in the creation of SNR 0509-67.5 occurred nearly 400 years ago for Earth viewers. The bubble-shaped shroud of gas is 23 light-years across and is expanding at more than 11 million miles per hour

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This is an amazing picture

Cran

Very nice find, quite interesting indeed. Thanks for putting this up there.....It is truly amazing isnt it? Makes you realize just how small we actually are.

I'm glad I decided to check new topics before going to bed. This is the perfect picture to be stuck in my head when I close my eyes. Thank you OP S&F

Now that is a sight even Gene Roddenberry would be touched by. It's a truly beautiful place out there. Even the deadly things are beautiful from a very long distance.

wow it looks like a gigantic bubble.

nice pictures

Beautiful.
i wonder what forces stopped it from being a perfect circle.
(awaits know-it-alls)

reply to post by listerofsmeg

i wonder what forces stopped it from being a perfect circle

Maybe Dark Matter
Not sure though

Cran

reply to post by PutAQuarterIn

This is the perfect picture to be stuck in my head when I close my eyes

Thank you
I always aim to please

Cran