by Astronomers have taken the most detailed image of the Vela supernova remnant ever.
The stunning, 1.3-gigapixel image is also the largest ever released from the Dark Energy Camera.
This billowing mass of dust filaments and gas tendrils stretching across 100 light-years of space like delicate lace is the Vela supernova remnant — scattered ashes of a star that exploded about 11,000 years ago.
The image has to be large to capture all that detail across such a large swath of sky.
As mentioned, the Vela supernova remnant is a nebula that is about 100 light-years across.
Because it's about 800 light-years away from us, it means the Vela supernova remnant spans an area on the celestial sphere 20 times larger than the angular diameter of the full moon
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The stunning, 1.3-gigapixel image is also the largest ever released from the Dark Energy Camera.
This billowing mass of dust filaments and gas tendrils stretching across 100 light-years of space like delicate lace is the Vela supernova remnant — scattered ashes of a star that exploded about 11,000 years ago.
The image has to be large to capture all that detail across such a large swath of sky.
As mentioned, the Vela supernova remnant is a nebula that is about 100 light-years across.
Because it's about 800 light-years away from us, it means the Vela supernova remnant spans an area on the celestial sphere 20 times larger than the angular diameter of the full moon
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