Stellar Skeletons (Show #36)

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• HST Press Release on Crab Nebulae
• Chandra Press Release on SN 1970g
• PPARC Press Release on Dark Energy

For those of you wanting to find the Crab Nebulae with your own telescope, the finder below (click on it to get a hi res finding chart) shows 1) The constellation Taurus (lower left) photographed by the avid astrophotographer Akira Fujii. 2) A two-colour image (right) shows the surroundings of the Crab Nebula. It was composed from Digitized Sky Survey 2 images, and 3) The new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image (upper left) of the entire Crab Nebula in super high resolution.
Credit: Akira Fujii, Davide De Martin (http://www.skyfactory.org) and NASA, ESA & Allison Loll/Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) Quoted from the HST site

Also discuseed was Supernova 1970g, in M101. While SN 1970g is not optically visible in a backyard scope, M101 is.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/GFSC/S.Immler & K.Kuntz; Optical: NOAO/AURA/NSF/G.Jacoby, B.Bohannan & M.Hanna