Sunday, May 02, 2010

 

A Ghostly Hand


PSR B1509-58, a 20 kilometer wide pulsar spinning 7 revolutions/sec. powers this false color image that spreads across almost 100 light years. It is 17,000 light years away and is really the remnant of a supernova explosion. The pulsar is in the blue white area just below the palm. Blue is high energy, green is low, and red is X-ray radiation.

Kinda creepy.

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# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:42 AM
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Something only twenty kilometers in size is responsible? That's pretty amazing.
# posted by Blogger BeckoningChasm : 5:48 PM
 
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