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spacegeck@astrodon.social ("Judy Schmidt") wrote:
Did this animation of the Crab pulsar nebula about a year ago. I used all of the data from the Chandra archive that I could scrounge up to make the most complete animation I could. Most of the frames do not overlap the entire image, giving it a patchy appearance.
A version of it is on the NYT today. They missed me in the credits, but I'm told they've been informed of that. Gift article link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/science/space/chandra-videos-supernova-explosions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k0.65Q6.bRjgEbMjyrCI&smid=url-share
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- A grayscale animation of a weird, swirling cloud sits in an otherwise blank, black sky. In the center, a pulsar, appearing a bright dot is causing the cloud to move in various ways. Encircling the pulsar are concentric rings that seem to be rippling outwards. To the lower left is another feature appearing more like a plume or jet and it is moving quite dramatically for the size and scale of an object in space. It seems affected by even the slightest force, like smoke in a closed room, but more or less moves straight out of the pulsar. There are actually two of them, but the other one, to the upper right, is behind the rest of the nebula and only faintly visible. (remote)