Wonderful Chandra
observations show that the “Hand of God” supernova remnant MSH 15-52 is slowing
down, while studies of SN 2018zd confirm predictions about the existence a third
type of supernova.
Today is podium day!
Our judges have completed their evaluation of all the post-processed pictures submitted for the previous month contests and now we have the winners.
Cropping is the technique of selecting and extracting a rectangular portion of the image and discarding the rest.
This rectangular piece then represents the entire image.
We all know that many of the objects we chase around the night sky are listed as part of a catalog other than the New General Catalog (NGC) or the Index Catalog (IC).
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, astronomers have found that cosmic filaments connecting superclusters are rotating, which gives new clues about how the largest structures in our Universe work.