Posted on Dec 10, 2020

APOD: 2020 December 10 - Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant

Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant." Located 3,000 light years away between the constellations Taurus and Auriga (The Charioteer), Simeis 147 (also known as the Spaghetti Nebula) is a large and faint remnant of a supernova explosion that occurred over 40,000 years ago. In the wake of the explosion, the supernova left behind a pulsar (PSR J0538+2817) and an expanding cloud of ionized gas. This composite image shows both hydrogen (red) and doubly ionized oxygen (blue-green). Equipment used is a Celestron C11HD 11-inch Telescope, an ASI6200MM imaging camera, and an ASI290MM guiding camera.

APOD: 2020 December 10 - Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant

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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Thursday, December 10, 2020 entitled "Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant."

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Image: Simeis 147 - Supernova Remnant - Image Credit & Copyright: Georges Attard

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"Explanation: It's easy to get lost following the intricate looping filaments in this detailed image of supernova remnant Simeis 147. Also cataloged as Sharpless 2-240 it goes by the popular nickname, the Spaghetti Nebula. Seen toward the boundary of the constellations Taurus and Auriga, it covers nearly 3 degrees or 6 full moons on the sky. That's about 150 light-years at the stellar debris cloud's estimated distance of 3,000 light-years. This composite includes image data taken through narrow-band filters where reddish emission from ionized hydrogen atoms and doubly ionized oxygen atoms in faint blue-green hues trace the shocked, glowing gas. The supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years, meaning light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago. But the expanding remnant is not the only aftermath. The cosmic catastrophe also left behind a spinning neutron star or pulsar, all that remains of the original star's core.

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