X-Rays from the Cat's Eye Nebula


	X-Rays from the Cat's Eye Nebula

skwirlinator

8-4-2008 4:18 PM

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8-5-2008 9:39 AM

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This clip is so beautiful, it looks surreal. At first glance, I thought it was a fractal.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a81a8e4f-bab2-4d35-8f98-9c868bde0abd/F6ABD14D-B3D3-4F7B-B895-6E7574384E35/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0808/catseye_chandra_big.jpg" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0808/catseye_chandra_big.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0808/catseye_chandra_big.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/C65F471E-5EF9-494E-A372-0DE7391F1D42" alt="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0808/catseye_chandra_big.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201504" href="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201504" style="font-size: 11px;">www.coolscifi.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201504"><B>Explanation: </B> Haunting patterns within planetary nebula <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_6543">NGC 6543</A> readily suggest its popular moniker -- the <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_senses#Sight">Cat's Eye</A> nebula. Starting in 1995, stunning false-color optical images <A target="_blank" href="http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/95/01.html">from the Hubble Space Telescope</A> detailed the swirls of this <A target="_blank" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070513.html">glowing nebula</A>, known to be the gaseous shroud expelled from a dying <A target="_blank" href="http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/ast122/lectures/lec18.html">sun-like star</A> about 3,000 light-years from Earth. <A target="_blank" href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/catseye/">This composite picture</A> combines the latest Hubble optical image of the Cat's Eye with new <A target="_blank" href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_astro/history.html">x-ray data</A> from the <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory">orbiting Chandra Observatory</A> and reveals surprisingly intense x-ray emission indicating the presence of extremely hot gas. X-ray emission is shown as blue-purple hues superimposed on the nebula's center. The nebula's central star itself is clearly immersed in the multimillion degree, x-ray emitting gas.</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://www.coolscifi.com/forums/showthread.php?t=201504">astronomers see <A target="_blank" href="http://www.astro.washington.edu/balick/WFPC2/">the fate of our sun</A>, destined to enter its own <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_nebula">planetary nebula phase</A> of evolution ... in about <A target="_blank" href="http://chandra.harvard.edu/xray_sources/white_dwarfs.html">5 billion years</A>. </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/F6ABD14D-B3D3-4F7B-B895-6E7574384E35/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.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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