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Nebulae are far away from Earth. We know what they look like because scientists use powerful telescopes to capture images of them. A nebula can take many different forms and shapes, but where did these stunning dust clouds come from? Learn more at https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/nebula/en/ Find more fun videos, games, and articles about space and Earth science at https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/

Since astronomers captured the bright explosion of a star on February 24, 1987, they have been searching for the squashed stellar core that should have been left behind. A new study from two NASA X-ray telescopes may have finally been successful. As the first supernova visible with the naked eye in the last four hundred years, Supernova 1987A, or SN 1987A for short, caused great excitement among scientists and soon became one of the most studied objects in the sky. The supernova is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small companion galaxy to our own only about 170,000 light years from Earth. While astronomers watched debris explode outward from the site of the detonation, they also looked for what should have remained of the star's core: a neutron star. In this latest result, astronomers combined X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, along with radio data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array reported last year. Taken all together, this team presented an intriguing collection of evidence for the presence of a neutron star at the center of SN 1987A. When a star explodes, it collapses onto itself before the outer layers are blasted into space. The compression of the core turns it into an extraordinarily dense object, with the mass of the Sun squeezed into an object only about 10 miles across. These objects have been dubbed neutron stars, because they are made nearly exclusively of densely packed neutrons. They are laboratories of extreme physics that cannot be duplicated here on Earth. Rapidly rotating and highly magnetized neutron stars — called pulsars — produce a lighthouse-like beam of radiation that astronomers detect as pulses when its rotation sweeps the beam across the sky. Some pulsars produce winds from their surfaces – sometimes at nearly the speed of light – that create intricate structures of charged particles and magnetic fields known as "pulsar wind nebulas." The latest X-ray study supports the case for a pulsar wind nebula and argues against another scenario involving accelerating particles from the blast wave. Additional research will be needed to confirm the results from this latest promising study. Astronomers will continue to observe and examine SN 1987A in the coming years to see what this fascinating object reveals next. More at: https://chandra.si.edu/photo/2021/pwn1987a/

Welcome to Space Videos for some 60 second science! Please like and share this video! Captured in astounding detail by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), the eerie Skull Nebula is showcased in a new image in beautiful pink and red tones. This planetary nebula is the first known to be associated with a pair of closely bound stars orbited by a third outer star. This video offers stunning views of this object and tells the story of the three stars at its centre Credit: ESO Directed by: Herbert Zodet. Editing: Herbert Zodet. Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida. Written by: Justin Tabbett, Emma Foxell, Stephanie Rowlands and Bárbara Ferreira. Music: StellarDrone - Crystal Spheres Footage and photos: ESO, C. Malin (christophmalin.com), Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Risinger (skysurvey.org) and P. Horálek . Scientific consultants: Paola Amico and Mariya Lyubenova. Thanks for watching - why not support this channel and help us grow. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCakgsb0w7QB0VHdnCc-OVEA/join Subscribe For More Videos Like This: http://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace?sub_confirmation=1 See my latest videos : https://www.youtube.com/user/ouramazingspace/videos Bringing you the BEST Space and Astronomy videos online. Showcasing videos and images from the likes of NASA,ESA,Hubble etc. Join me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spaceisamazing Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmazingSpace2 Music by Kevin Macleod http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

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AAS 237 Press Conference: Evolving Stars & Nebulae II Friday, 15 January 2021, 4:30 pm EST Welcome Rick Fienberg (AAS Press Officer) Scientists Explain a Jet Pointing the Wrong Way Daniel Q. Wang (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) New Looks at Old Friends: Hubble Space Telescope and Radio Imaging of Two Quintessential Planetary Nebulae The Butterfly (NGC 6302) Joel Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology) The Jewel Bug (NGC 7027) Paula Moraga Baez (Rochester Institute of Technology) & Jesse Bublitz (Green Bank Observatory) Q&A

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NRAO scientific data analyst Catarina Ubach discusses the beautiful, iconic Orion Nebula, also known as M42. Discover more about Our Milky Way Galaxy on our website: https://public.nrao.edu/radio-astronomy/our-milky-way-galaxy/ Take a virtual tour of the Milky Way in our Milky Way Explorer: https://public.nrao.edu/explore/milky-way-explorer/ Additional animation and video credits: A. Angelich, NRAO/AUI/NSF; NASA/ESA and L. Ricci (ESO), M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team; STScI, CalTech, National Geographic Society; ESO/M. Kornmesser. Music: Geodesium.

Welcome to the Orion Explorer, a guided trip of a group of stars and nebulae right in our neighborhood. You choose where to explore, and a radio astronomer talks to you about each stop. The many experts you will meet along your tour are the real people who have helped us better understand the wonders of the Orion Constellation. We will update those stories as we learn more, and we will also add more stops on your tour, so keep checking in for the latest additions. To begin your tour of Orion, choose any button on the map beneath or browse the list of tour stops at the right: https://public.nrao.edu/explore/milky-way-explorer. Discover more about Our Milky Way Galaxy on our website: https://public.nrao.edu/radio-astronomy/our-milky-way-galaxy/ The Orion Explorer was inspired by Green Bank astronomer Ron Maddalena's Tour of Orion. Credits: Alexandra Angelich, Tania Burchell, Jeff Hellerman, BIll Saxton, Deepika Nagaraj, Jessica Geist, and Maria Temming (NRAO/AUI/NSF). Additional multimedia delivered from: Axel Mellinger; Rogelio Bernal Andreo; NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team; ESO/H. Drass et al.; David J. Schlegel, Douglas P. Finkbeiner and Marc Davis, Princeton University and University of California, Berkeley; T.M. Dame, Dap Hartmann, P. Thaddeus; ESO/C. Malin (christophmalin.com) Music: Mark Mercury.

Over just 20 years, the Stingray nebula has become anywhere from 29 to 900 times dimmer! It could teach us a ton about how nebulas evolve over time, and what happens when everything is going a lot faster than expected. Get 10% off today—WITH FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING—by going to http://ridge.com/SCISHOW and use code “SCISHOW” at check out. Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Marwan Hassoun, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Paper: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200901701B/abstract Press Release: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-captures-unprecedented-fading-of-stingray-nebula https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/dwarfs1.html http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2005JKAS...38..271K https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.01701 http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=SAO+244567 https://spacetelescope.org/news/heic1618/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07113 Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30957 http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Extreme_space/Stingray_Nebula_Henize_1357 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30792 https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1840e/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=30093 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Backyard_photo_of_the_Orion_Nebula.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20314 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/250718.php https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1618a/ https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1531a/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11447

This video morphs archival data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal that the nebula Hen 3-1357, nicknamed the Stingray nebula, has faded precipitously over just the past two decades. Witnessing such a swift rate of change in a planetary nebula is exceedingly rare, say researchers. The video presents the Stingray nebula as it was observed by Hubble in 2016 and then fades to Hubble's view from 1996. When compared, these Hubble images show a nebula that has drastically dimmed in brightness and changed shape. Bright blue shells of gas near the centre of the nebula have all but disappeared, and the wavy edges that earned this nebula its aquatic-themed name are virtually gone. The young nebula no longer pops against the black velvet background of the distant Universe. More information and download options: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic2020a/ Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara), M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble)

This video zooms into the nebula Hen 3-1357, nicknamed the Stingray nebula, which has faded precipitously over just the past two decades. Witnessing such a swift rate of change in a planetary nebula is exceedingly rare, say researchers. More information and download options: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic2020b/ Credit: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org) Music: Astral Electronic

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It doesn't get much better than the Spirograph Nebula. Everyone remember playing with spirograph as a kid making those amazing shapes? They're called hypotrochoids and epitrochoids and you even seem to find them in space... #spaceisweird #weirdisagoodthing Willson & Aller (1951) - http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1951ApJ...114..421W Ramos-Larios et al. (2012) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.5816.pdf Dopita et al. (2017) - https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.03974.pdf Hubble Space Telescope image: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0028a/ -- The artwork in the background is a scientifically accurate map showing the orbits of more than 18000 asteroids in the Solar System, created by Eleanor Lutz. Find out more and buy one here: https://eleanorlutz.com/mapping-18000-asteroids ---- Don't forget to subscribe and click the little bell icon to be notified when I post a new video! --- Pre-order the illustrated version of my book in the USA & Canada - out June 2nd 2020! https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635406/space-at-the-speed-of-light-by-dr-becky-smethurst/ For anywhere else in the world you can buy it now on amazon here: http://bit.ly/SpaceDrBecky --------- RAS podcast that I’m co-hosting 😱 🥳- podfollow.com/supermassive --------- Dr. Becky also presents videos on Sixty Symbols: https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols and Deep Sky Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/DeepSkyVideos Dr Becky Smethurst is an astrophysicist researching galaxies and supermassive black holes at Christ Church at the University of Oxford. http://drbecky.uk.com https://rebeccasmethurst.co.uk

Nebulas are beautiful, delicate structures of cosmic gas and dust. These incredible shapes and explosions of color are some of the most recognizable and iconic celestial objects in the universe. Now, we are learning that they are far more than just pretty pictures. Stream Full Episodes of How the Universe Works: https://www.sciencechannel.com/tv-shows/how-the-universe-works/ Subscribe to Science Channel: http://bit.ly/SubscribeScience Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceChannel Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScienceChannel Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ScienceChannel/

Frank Summers, Space Telescope Science Institute Massive stars do not go gentle into that good night. They rage against the dying of the light in titanic supernova explosions. These stars, more than 10 times the mass of our sun, exhaust their nuclear fuel in less than 1 percent of the Sun's lifetime. Their brilliant blasts, in which a single star can outshine an entire galaxy, serve as both galactic recycling engines and cosmic beacons. The stellar remains range from the densest objects in the universe to gossamer gas filaments expanding across interstellar space. In one particular supernova remnant, the Crab Nebula, its 3D nested structure showcases the energetics and interconnections revealed by multiwavelength astronomy. Recorded live on Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. More information: www.stsci.edu/public-lectures

In the year 1054 AD, Chinese sky watchers witnessed the sudden appearance of a "new star" in the heavens, which they recorded as six times brighter than Venus, making it the brightest observed stellar event in recorded history. This "guest star," as they described it, was so bright that people saw it in the sky during the day for almost a month. Native Americans also recorded its mysterious appearance in petroglyphs. Observing the nebula with the largest telescope of the time, Lord Rosse in 1844 named the object the "Crab" because of its tentacle-like structure. But it wasn't until the 1900s that astronomers realized the nebula was the surviving relic of the 1054 supernova, the explosion of a massive star. Now, astronomers and visualization specialists have combined the visible, infrared, and X-ray vision of NASA's Great Observatories to create a three-dimensional representation of the dynamic Crab Nebula. Certain structures and processes, driven by the pulsar engine at the heart of the nebula, are best seen at particular wavelengths. The multiwavelength computer graphics visualization is based on images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. The new video dissects the intricate nested structure that makes up this stellar corpse, giving viewers a better understanding of the extreme and complex physical processes powering the nebula. The powerhouse "engine" energizing the entire system is a pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star, the super-dense crushed core of the exploded star. The tiny dynamo is blasting out blistering pulses of radiation towards us 30 times a second with unbelievable clockwork precision. The visualization is one of a new generation of products and experiences being developed by the NASA's Universe of Learning program. It helps illustrate the power of what astronomers call “multiwavelength” astronomy where different types of light are combined to get a more complete understanding of the Universe and objects within it.

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This visualization features a three-dimensional multiwavelength representation of the Crab Nebula, a pulsar wind nebula that is the remains of an exploded star. The movie is based on images from NASA’s three Great Observatories: the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes. The movie begins by showing the Crab Nebula in context, pinpointing the location of the observed supernova in the constellation Taurus. This view zooms in to present the Hubble, Spitzer, and Chandra images of the Crab Nebula, each highlighting one of the nested structures in the system. The video then begins a slow buildup of the three-dimensional X-ray structure, showing the pulsar and disk of energized material, and adding jets of particles firing off from opposite sides of the energetic dynamo. Appearing next is a rotating infrared view of a glowing cloud of emission, called synchrotron radiation, enveloping the pulsar system. This distinctive form of radiation occurs when streams of charged particles spiral around the pulsar’s magnetic field lines. The visible-light outer shell of the Crab Nebula appears next. Looking like a cage around the entire system, this shell of glowing gas consists of tentacle-shaped filaments of ionized oxygen. The tsunami of particles unleashed by the pulsar is pushing on this expanding debris cloud like an animal rattling its cage. The X-ray, infrared, and visible-light models are combined at the end of the movie to reveal both a rotating three-dimensional multiwavelength view and the corresponding two-dimensional multiwavelength image of the Crab Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, F. Summers, J. Olmsted, L. Hustak, J. DePasquale, G. Bacon (STScI), N. Wolk (CfA|H&S/CXC), R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC) Length: 3 minutes 43 seconds