Zooming into the Vela Supernova Remnant
With the powerful, 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, astronomers have constructed a massive 1.3 gigapixel image showcasing the central part of the Vela Supernova Remnant, the cosmic corpse of a gigantic star that exploded as a supernova 11,000 years ago. DECam is one of the highest-performing wide-field imaging instruments in the world and is mounted on the US National Science Foundation's Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab.
Credit:Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab)
Music: Zero-project - Through the Looking Glass (zero-project.gr)
About the Video
Id: | noirlab2406d |
Release date: | March 12, 2024, 8 a.m. |
Related releases: | noirlab2406 |
Duration: | 59 s |
Frame rate: | 29.97 |