Sh2-240 - The Spaghetti Nebula
- Galerie:
- Universe
- Beschreibung:
- Simeis 147, also known as the Spaghetti Nebula, SNR G180.0-01.7 or Sharpless 2-240, is a supernova remnant in the Milky Way, straddling the border between the constellations Auriga and Taurus. It was discovered in 1952 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory by Grigory Shajn and his team using a Schmidt camera and a narrowband filter close to the Hydrogen Alpha transmission line.The nebulous area has an almost spherical shell and a filamentary structure. The remnant has an apparent diameter of approximately 3 degrees, an estimated distance of approximately 3000 (±350) light-years, and an age of approximately 40,000 years. At that distance, it spans roughly 160 lightyears.
- Copyright:
- Anna & Hellmut Schulze-Wenck
- Keywords:
- #Sh2-240 #spaghetti_nebula #astrophotography #deep_sky #sky #space #science #universe #stars #nebula #LRGB #SHO #narrowband #oxygen #sulfur #hydrogen #dark #material #supernova #black_holes #white_dwarfs #red_dwarfs
