Rippling Crab Nebula

[Martin]

see this short movie

made from timelapse shots of Crab

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/combinedmovie_sm.mov

 

here are other movies of Crab

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2002/0052/movies.html

 

advise you select the low resolution version so it takes less time to download and let the download happen in the background while u do something else. it takes several minutes

but then u can come back and play it

 

"This movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra (left, blue) and optical light by Hubble (right, red)."

[swansont]

Cool

[ydoaPs]

i am surprised you are just posting this now. i would think that you would have seen this before.

[Martin]

Cool

 

definitely

 

here is the March 26, 2005 Astronomy Picture of the Day

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050326.html

 

it has a still shot of Crab with lots of detail and it also has some facts and links, e.g. to the movies

[Dave]

Yeah, I have to admit, that looks pretty damn good. Makes me wish I'd taken physics

[Johnny5]

That looks like waves in the water. What is that?

[swansont]

That looks like waves in the water. What is that?

 

The expansion of the leftovers from a supernova that was observed in 1054 A.D. Basically it's the gas that got blown off, and the rippling is, I expect, from a compression wave travelling through the nebula.

[Johnny5]

The expansion of the leftovers from a supernova that was observed in 1054 A.D. Basically it's the gas that got blown off, and the rippling is, I expect, from a compression wave travelling through the nebula.

 

Is that the one Chinese astronomers observed? I remember that from history class.

[swansont]

Is that the one Chinese astronomers observed? I remember that from history class.

 

Yes.