Morning Tidings

Tag: Supernova

  • Halloween in Space? ESO Telescope Captures Gigantic Star’s ‘Ghostly’ Remains; Spooky Pic of Vela Supernova Goes Viral

    European Southern Observatory (ESO) recently shared an incredible picture of Vela Supernova that displays a stunning tapestry of colours. The ‘ghostly’ remains of the gigantic star appear like a spooky spider web. The wispy pink structure, suitably tinged with orange, blue and purple given the picture’s release on Halloween, is all left of a massive star which died in an intense explosion around 11,000 years ago, as per reports. Ghoulish Jack-o-Lantern Wins NASA’s Poll for Creepiest Pic From Space Beating Skull Asteroid and Cosmic Nebula for Halloween 2019 (View Pics).

    Here’s The Image Of Spooky Supernova: 

    (SocialLY brings you all the latest breaking news, viral trends and information from social media world, including Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. The above post is embeded directly from the user’s social media account and Morning Tidings Staff may not have modified or edited the content body. The views and facts appearing in the social media post do not reflect the opinions of Morning Tidings, also Morning Tidings does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.)

  • Fascinating Supernova! NASA Shares Incredible Picture of the Remains Exploded Star; Viral Image Wows Netizens

    NASA has once again stunned the internet with a spectacular picture of the remains of a supernova. The Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope captured the image. Posted on Instagram, the pic went viral, leaving netizens in awe. As per the caption of the viral photo of the exploded star exhibits properties of a highly magnetized neutron star or magnetar in three bands of X-ray light. The supernova is around 9,000 light-years from Earth. NASA Shares Enthralling Infrared Images of Jupiter From James Webb Space Telescope that Showcase the Planet’s Features in Detail.

    Remains Of Supernova! 

    (SocialLY brings you all the latest breaking news, viral trends and information from social media world, including Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. The above post is embeded directly from the user’s social media account and Morning Tidings Staff may not have modified or edited the content body. The views and facts appearing in the social media post do not reflect the opinions of Morning Tidings, also Morning Tidings does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.)

  • James Webb Telescope Likely Spots First Supernova (See Pics)

    Washington, August 1: The powerful next-generation James Webb Space Telescope may have likely spotted its first supernova, according to astronomers. According to Mike Engesser of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the object is extremely bright compared to the rest of the galaxy.

    And Webb observed the galaxy, called SDSS.J141930.11+5251593, twice, five days apart; the object dimmed, just slightly, over those five days — classic supernova behaviour, Inverse reported.

    “We suspect it’s a supernova,” Engesser was quoted as saying. “We would need more time series data to make a determination, but the data we do have does match that of a supernova, so it’s a very good candidate,” he added. NASA’s LRO Spacecraft Finds Lunar Pits With Temperatures Suitable for Humans.

    The $10 billion Webb telescope, is an international programme led by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. The telescope’s actual aim is to solve mysteries in our solar system, look beyond distant worlds around other stars, and probe the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it.

    “Primarily, it’s exciting because we have shown that we’re able to find and detect new transients with Webb, which was something that JWST is not designed to do. But it’s one of the things we’re showing we’re able to do in sort of an ad hoc way,” he noted.

    Webb is designed to look much, much deeper into smaller patches of sky. The telescope’s first deep-field image, released on July 12, covers an area of sky that one could cover with a grain of sand held at arm’s length. Here’s Our Updated Plan to Bring Mars Samples to Earth.

    “So the actual likelihood that you’ll find a transient in the field you’re looking at is fairly small — or at least we thought it would be small,” Engesser said. “But as you’ve probably heard, every JWST field is a deep field at this point, so there’s galaxies everywhere, and now we’re thinking, oh, we might have a really good chance of detecting supernovae all the time.”

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Aug 01, 2022 06:34 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).