Hubble snaps ghostly ribbon of light


	Hubble snaps ghostly ribbon of light

kkcapricorn

7-4-2008 2:56 PM

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kkcapricorn says:

I was unable to clip other pictures, but the links are there.
Spectacular. Makes one feel oh so insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14241-hubble-snaps-ghostly-ribbon-of-light.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14241"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/space.newscientist.com/img/CB7E2C85-857A-4B13-A102-C0BFB3AB8BD3" alt="The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a close-up of the expanding remnants of a supernova observed in 1006 CE (Image: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14241-hubble-snaps-ghostly-ribbon-of-light.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14241">Hubble has captured a close-up of the remnant of a supernova that exploded in the Milky Way over 8000 years ago, and whose light reached Earth on 1 May 1006. The explosion is one of the <A href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19426021.200-looking-for-the-echoes-of-a-supernova.html">brightest in recorded history</A> and was visible with the naked eye</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14241-hubble-snaps-ghostly-ribbon-of-light.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14241">The delicate-looking remnant is actually part of a shock wave from the stellar explosion. The roiling remains are still expanding, moving at a clip of about 10 million kilometres per hour</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14241-hubble-snaps-ghostly-ribbon-of-light.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14241">Bright parts of the twisting ribbon are places where the shock wave from the explosion lies edge-on with our line of sight</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14241-hubble-snaps-ghostly-ribbon-of-light.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14241">The remains of the supernova are faint in visible light, but astronomers have produced <A href="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn8481-xray-vision-reveals-new-view-of-supernova-remnant.html">stunning images</A> in the X-ray part of the spectrum</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14241-hubble-snaps-ghostly-ribbon-of-light.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14241"><I>View a <A target="ns" href="http://media.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/av/dn13883V1/dn13883V1.html"><B>gallery</B></A> of other shimmering supernova remnants (move your mouse over the images to read the captions).</I></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C03B2964-F312-4E09-ACBB-F8B288247326/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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