Are you anyone who, outside of our Blue Earth, also wonders about the world? Do you find yourself hunting for space-related material on the Internet? If your answer is 'Yes,' then you'll be delighted with these throwback pictures of Jupiter.
A video focused on work carried out by NASA's Universe of Learning project was recently shared by the Hubble team. The clip shows the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF): an image captured by the telescope in 2003 of a small chunk of the sky, with 800 observations taken over an 11.3-day span.
Posted on the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's official Instagram site, the photos often display the northern and southern auroras of Jupiter.
The post has gathered more than 77,000 likes since being shared, and the statistics are still rising. It has also collected hundreds of funny messages from individuals.
Its Exact Age and Position Estimates
The NASA study team, headed by John Banovetz and Danny Milisavljevic of the University of Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana, researched 1E 0102.2-7219 to understand the precise age and position of the supernova and to locate the shrapnel from the explosion.
The ejecta clumps or knots inside the nebula are traveling at varying speeds and distances away from the core of the major eruption, as stated in an article by The Next Web.
The total velocity of the knots is 3.2 million km/h, and about two million miles per hour, a velocity so swift that it will take about 15 minutes for an object from Earth to enter and return to the Moon at the same distance.
The team of scientists took the 22 quickest knots that can be seen from the nebula to calculate the exact age of the supernova remnant and followed the motion of the knots backward until they all reached one point, which would then mark the exact place where a star used to shine.
The researchers were able to determine how long it took the ejecta to reach their present points until they had the location.
The pace of the shattered heart of the star that triggered the explosion, also known as the neutron star that was expelled from the blast, could also be clocked by Hubble.
According to their estimation, 1,700 years earlier, about the period of the Roman Empire's decline, the light from the eruption landed on Earth, indicating it must have been noticeable to certain citizens on Earth during that time.
The researchers said, though, that the supernova might have been apparent to people residing in the southern hemisphere, and, sadly, no records of the occurrence are known.
About HUDF
The HUDF, which comprises approximately 10,000 galaxies, is the galaxy's most robust visual-light image, as the video states. In other terms, deep space provides an eruption of spinning, glowing galaxies, and supernovae. (As opposed to stating, false-color illustrations of space X-ray photos that, while stunning, are not realistic.) And that it is possible to extend the HUDF picture into a 3D vision practically.
According to The Nerdist, The 3D vision helps one imagine the galaxies and stars in the HUDF as they actually are: millions or billions of light-years distant from each other. This also implies that they are not only fired back into space but through time as well.
For starters, the above cross-section illustrates how a single galaxy has changed over time. We are witnessing it at a more youthful and younger age as the galaxy travels farther away from Earth in space. All the way back, until it's just a little red spot in the obscurity of a vortex.
The journey guides audiences around the stars and galaxies in the HUDF for about three minutes, which sounds like a miniature ride to the planetarium. But whatever Hubble's successor is going to teach us, you'll want to preserve your eyesight.
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