
このサイトで見つけました ^^
http://waku.cocolog-nifty.com/waku/cat108811/index.html より Orz〜
宇宙に浮かんだネックレス
「直径が一光年のネックレス 神秘の宇宙 不思議は魅惑」
宇宙は光の芸術作品の宝庫ですね!
考えてみれば、150億年だかの光がすべて降り注いでるんだから、、、不思議じゃないのかも知れないけどね。。。^^
画像:http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/10/ より
「 A String of 'Cosmic Pearls' Surrounds an Exploding Star
Twenty years ago, astronomers witnessed one of the brightest stellar explosions in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called SN 1987A, blazed with the power of 100 million suns for several months following its discovery on Feb. 23, 1987. Observations of SN 1987A, made over the past 20 years by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and many other major ground- and space-based telescopes, have significantly changed astronomers' views of how massive stars end their lives. Astronomers credit Hubble's sharp vision with yielding important clues about the massive star's demise.
This Hubble telescope image shows the supernova’s triple-ring system, including the bright spots along the inner ring of gas surrounding the exploded star. A shock wave of material unleashed by the stellar blast is slamming into regions along the inner ring, heating them up, and causing them to glow. The ring, about a light-year across, was probably shed by the star about 20,000 years before it exploded. 」
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