WORLDTECHAPOD: 2026 September 24 – The Ghosts of Five Supernovas
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File:Launch of the Roman Space Telescope (NASA livestream).webm / NASA Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff, Jerry Bonnell, Cecilia Chirenti, Keighley Rockcliffe A service of: ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. Random APOD Generator Yesterday's Image APOD: 2026 August 30 – M74: A Grand Design Spiral Tomorrow's Image / Launch of the Roman Space Telescope / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Launch_of_the_Roman_Space_Telescope_(NASA_livestream).webmSource pageWhat happened
As each explosion expanded into space , it created a growing shell of shocked gas and delicate filamentary structures shown in red ( hydrogen ) and blue ( oxygen ), respectively. Original Annotated The Ghosts of Five Supernovas Explanation: The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image .
From left to right, the five supernova remnants visible across the field are G181.1+9.5 , G182.4+4.3 , G179.0+2.6 , G180.0−1.7 (Sh2-240, the Spaghetti Nebula ), and G178.2−4.2 . They are highlighted in the annotated image , together with open cluster M37 and the Tadpole Nebula .
These ancient stellar explosions happened independently; they are at various distances up to about several thousands of light-years away from Earth and have estimated ages up to tens of thousands of years old . APOD’s email for image submissions has changed.
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