The Chandra X-ray telescope has been monitoring space objects for more than 20 years.
The Chandra X-ray telescope has been monitoring space objects for more than 20 years.
A huge ghost structure stretching after a shining cloud of dust was photographed in space by NASA’s X-ray telescope, the Chandra space telescope, writes the NASA announcement in the wake of the Origo.
The “hand,” experts say, was created by the death of a massive star; after the supernova explosion, a rapidly rotating, extremely dense stellar remnant called a pulsar was formed. This pulsar, in turn, created a bubble of charged particles around it, which, together with the debris from the starburst, forms a 150-year-old hand-like structure in space. The hand pictured reaches for a glowing cloud of gas, the RCW 89.
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The ghosting pulsar, MSH 15-52, is located roughly 17,000 light-years from Earth.
Astronomers BELIEVE THE LIGHT OF A COSMIC DISASTER REACHED US AROUND 1700 YEARS, SO THAT IS ONE OF THE YOUNGEST SUPERNOVE RESIDUES IN THE MILK SYSTEM I EVER OBSERVED.
A study published in the astronomical journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters found that the velocity of the shock wave propagated at the ends of the fingers reaches 14.5 million kilometers per hour.
MATERIAL CLOSER TO THE “PALM” MOVES AT AN EVEN GREATER RATE OF 17.7 MILLION KILOMETERS PER HOUR.
The Chandra X-ray telescope was launched in July 1999 and has been monitoring space objects for more than 20 years.
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