APOD: 2019 September 6 - Recycling Cassiopeia A

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price my goodness......you can't beat this read/share if you tried. Good ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY. NO BODY DOES IT BETTER FROM ABOVE my good friend. I love the read and is so informational and educational. Thank you for sharing this Friday 6 September 2019.

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Good Afternoon, Maj William W. 'Bill' Price!!! I have been running behind time today as I participated on a Men's Night Out with two of my adult sons! Dinner and drinks were included and great conversation...But that said, I arrived home later than planned, got up late, rushed to an appointment, then back home... "Nuff said on that score.

Cassiopeia A is a phenomenal supernova remnant some 11,000 light years away... The image is glorious, to say the least, however, I did find a most interesting short video which provides a wealth of data and breaks down the composition and shows Cassiopeia in a more 3D view...
https://youtu.be/d9a8OiZPYkk


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Thank you, my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Friday, September 6, 2019 entitled "Recycling Cassiopeia A."
Wonderful image would have been visible in the night sky on earth 350 years ago and yet "that light about 11,000 years to reach us."
The expanse of the 2nd heaven is beyond our imagination and yet it was created by the word of God in Creation.

Image: Recycling Cassiopeia A Image Credit -X-ray - NASA, CXC, SAO; Optical - NASA,STScI
"Explanation: Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the explosion which created this supernova remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light about 11,000 years to reach us. This false-color image, composed of X-ray and optical image data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, shows the still hot filaments and knots in the remnant. It spans about 30 light-years at the estimated distance of Cassiopeia A. High-energy X-ray emission from specific elements has been color coded, silicon in red, sulfur in yellow, calcium in green and iron in purple, to help astronomers explore the recycling of our galaxy's star stuff. Still expanding, the outer blast wave is seen in blue hues. The bright speck near the center is a neutron star, the incredibly dense, collapsed remains of the massive stellar core."
Thank you, my friend Maj Marty Hogan for mentioning me.

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