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English: The Vela constellation is visible with the naked eye in the southern sky, but you might miss a lot of details hidden there, like those shown in this Picture of the Week. This is a small patch of the Vela supernova remnant, the intricate leftovers of the explosion of a massive star 11 000 years ago. This image is part of a huge and detailed mosaic captured with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Chilean desert.Pink and orange filamentary clouds swarm around in this picture, resembling the ghostly shadow of a cosmic bird with wide orange wings, a long pink body, and a bright pinkish star as an eye. A myriad of stars are sprinkled all over the image.When massive stars reach the end of their life they explode as supernovae, expelling their outer layers. These explosions send out shock waves that move through the surrounding gas, compressing and reshaping it. This is what creates the intricate structure of filaments seen here, which shine brightly because of the energy released during the explosion. |
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Date | 15 January 2024 (upload date) | ||
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Author | ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU | ||
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Credit/Provider | ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU |
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Source | European Southern Observatory |
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Date and time of data generation | 06:00, 15 January 2024 |
JPEG file comment | This image shows a spectacular view of the orange and pink clouds that make up what remains after the explosive death of a massive star — the Vela supernova remnant. This detailed image consists of 554 million pixels, and is a combined mosaic image of observations taken with the 268-million-pixel OmegaCAM camera at the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. OmegaCAM can take images through several filters that each let the telescope see the light emitted in a distinct colour. To capture this image, four filters have been used, represented here by a combination of magenta, blue, green and red. The result is an extremely detailed and stunning view of both the gaseous filaments in the remnant and the foreground bright blue stars that add sparkle to the image. |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 23.4 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 11:59, 8 May 2023 |
Date and time of digitizing | 17:43, 26 July 2022 |
Date metadata was last modified | 13:59, 8 May 2023 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:58c76b41-276d-7044-b7eb-e8105e7929e5 |
Keywords | Vela Supernova Remnant |
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Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, None, D-85748 Germany |
IIM version | 4 |