NASA’s Photo of the Day presents a colorful portrait of the “Spaghetti Nebula” in the sky.
According to RCO News Agency, Officially cataloged as Simeis 147 and Sharpless 2-240, the Spaghetti Nebula easily immerses the viewer in the looping and twisting strands of this complex supernova remnant.
According to NASA, Located on the border of the constellations Taurus and Auriga, this impressive gas structure covers approximately three degrees of the sky, the equivalent of six full moons. This value is about 150 light-years at an estimated distance of 3000 light-years from the stellar debris cloud.
The remnants of the supernova are about 40 thousand years old. Thus, it can be said that the light from this powerful stellar explosion first reached Earth when woolly mammoths roamed freely. In addition to the expanding debris, this cosmic explosion also left behind a pulsar and a rapidly rotating neutron star.
This photo was taken last month in Forca Canapine, Italy.
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