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The Remnants of Tycho - Also, Red Shift / Blue Shift - AND, Supernovas as being Source of Highest-Energy Form of LIGHT
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I came across this picture, and it blew my mind. This is Tycho. It went supernova in 1572. I know some of you will find this old news, but the pictures recently taken by Chandra throw a lot of new information into the supernova.
Tycho was discovered by a Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe, in 1572...when it went supernova.
Tycho was invisible in the 16th century night sky, until it went supernova in 1572. Man mistook it for another star being born in the heavens. The explosive brightness lasted for about 2 years, before the 'star' faded from the dark night sky.
In England, Queen Elizabeth called to her the mathematician and astrologer Thomas Allen, "to have his advice about the new Star that appeared in the Cassiopeia to which he gave his Judgement very learnedly," the antiquary John Aubrey recorded in his memoranda a century later.[3]
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Now, over four centuries later, we can see it. This image "shows an expanding bubble of multimillion degree debris (green and red) inside a more rapidly moving shell of extremely high energy electrons (filamentary blue)."
[link to chandra.harvard.edu]
:tychorem:
The supersonic expansion (about six million miles per hour) of the stellar debris has created two X-ray emitting shock waves - one moving outward into the interstellar gas, and another moving back into the debris.
And, once again the more we study these celestial occurrences, the more we find fallacies in the Standard Theory ( [link to en.wikipedia.org] ).
According to the standard theory, the outward-moving shock wave should be about 2 light years ahead of the stellar debris. What Chandra found instead is that the stellar debris has kept pace with the outer shock and is only about half a light year behind...
..The most likely explanation for this behavior is that a large fraction of the energy of the outward-moving shock wave is going into the acceleration of atomic nuclei to speeds approaching the speed of light. The Chandra observations provide the strongest evidence yet that nuclei are indeed accelerated and that the energy contained in the high-speed nuclei in Tycho's remnant is about 100 times that observed in high-speed electrons.
[link to chandra.harvard.edu]
I always wonder how much we have gotten wrong, but swear we have gotten right. In everything...from the way our governments are run, to our history (winner writes history), to religions (my religion is right, yours is wrong), to theoretical sciences (that we take as fact), on and on. At least we can always say that everything continues to be a grand mystery.
As to the importance of this finding of Tycho's Remnant is the cosmic rays emitted by such an event. Remember, cosmic rays are one of the prime factors of the environment of space and changes throughout.
This finding is important for understanding the origin of cosmic rays, the high-energy nuclei which pervade the Galaxy and constantly bombard the Earth. Since their discovery in the early years of the 20th century, many sources of cosmic rays have been proposed, including flares on the sun and similar events on other stars, pulsars, black hole accretion disks, and the prime suspect - supernova shock waves. Chandra's observations of Tycho's supernova remnant strengthen the case for this explanation.
[link to chandra.harvard.edu]
Famous Star Explosion May Help Solve Cosmic Mystery
27 December 2011
...NASA's Fermi space telescope has detected gamma rays — the highest-energy form of light — emanating from the shattered husk of Tycho's supernova, a star that exploded in 1572. The find could help astronomers pinpoint the origin of cosmic rays, super-speedy subatomic particles that crash constantly into Earth's atmosphere, researchers said...
..."This detection gives us another piece of evidence supporting the notion that supernova remnants can accelerate cosmic rays,"...
...Observation of Tycho's supernova was one of the watershed moments in the history of astronomy, researchers said. At the time, most people regarded the sky as a fixed, unchanging part of the universe. But they couldn't hold onto that view after "Tycho's star" burst onto the scene...
...Just where and how cosmic rays, most of which are protons, attain their incredible speeds and energies is a long-standing mystery in astrophysics. Charged particles are easily deflected by interstellar magnetic fields, so it's tough to trace them directly back to their sources, researchers said...
...But astronomers have long suspected that supernovas are a key source of cosmic rays. After a star goes boom, it becomes a rapidly expanding shell of hot gas bounded by the explosion's shock wave. Magnetic fields on either side of the shockwave trap particles, the idea goes, bouncing them back and forth very rapidly.
The particles gain energy with each bounce, eventually getting so amped up that they burst free of the magnetic fields and start zipping through interstellar space
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[link to www.space.com]
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