Sunday, September 19, 2010

APOD 1.3

Tycho's Supernova Remnant
I have never seen so many awesome colors in one thing in space. Apparently this is possible to see with the naked eye, but the problem is, with how much light pollution? This supernova originally discovered by Tycho Brahe, hence the name. This is an expanding bubble of hot gas that has a fluffy look, because a lot of the solar winds are different, and expand different parts at separate rates. This is an X-ray image, a infrared image, and a regular image all chocked together to make this beautiful image. I did not really know that pictures of space were developed this way until I read about this one.

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