#Astronomical Cool Map#
【Jellyfish Nebula】
This fascinating wide-angle telescope image presents a bleak and difficult-to-capture Jellyfish Nebula. In the image, the glow of the jellyfish nebula glows obliquely through the field of view, and the dancing tentacles extend to the lower right corner. The yellow-white stars on either side of the nebula are Ida and I, who are at the foot of Gemini. This jellyfish-like cloud is actually part of IC 443, a bubble-like supernova remains, a cloud of debris from the explosion of a massive star. The flash from this supernova explosion only reached Earth about thirty thousand years ago. Like the supernova remains of its fellow Crab Nebula in the cosmic sea, IC 443 contains a neutron star formed after the collapse of its nucleus. The cloud in the upper left corner of the image is the emission nebula numbered Sharpless 249. The Jellyfish Nebula is about five thousand light-years away; Estimated from this distance, the image covers an area of about two hundred light-years. Jellyfish Nebula (Jellyfish Nebula), Mu Geminorum (Izuku I), Eta Geminorum (𫓰).
Information from: Su Hanzong Su, Han-Tzong (Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University)
Image Copyright & Provision: Gerhard
Bachmayer
@Astronomy Online @Zero-degree Galaxy
