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The Spaghetti Nebula
Catalogued as Sharpless 2-240, this faint supernova remnant goes by the popular nickname, the Spaghetti Nebula. It is fairly large (150 light years across) and located 3000 light years away toward the boundary of the constellations Taurus and Auriga. Light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago.
The violent stellar explosion that created the Spaghetti Nebula left behind all that remains of the original star’s core: a spinning neutron star known as pulsar PSR J0538+2817, surrounded by intricate filaments of material. This expanding remnant has an expansion rate of about 950 kilometers (nearly 600 miles) per second.
Total integration: 41h 45'
Location: Georgetown, Texas
The Spaghetti Nebula
Catalogued as Sharpless 2-240, this faint supernova remnant goes by the popular nickname, the Spaghetti Nebula. It is fairly large (150 light years across) and located 3000 light years away toward the boundary of the constellations Taurus and Auriga. Light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago.
The violent stellar explosion that created the Spaghetti Nebula left behind all that remains of the original star’s core: a spinning neutron star known as pulsar PSR J0538+2817, surrounded by intricate filaments of material. This expanding remnant has an expansion rate of about 950 kilometers (nearly 600 miles) per second.
Total integration: 41h 45'
Location: Georgetown, Texas