Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Vela (Vel)  ·  Contains:  e Vel
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Vela SNR Center Region Crop 1, Jeffrey K Lovelace

Vela SNR Center Region Crop 1

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
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Vela SNR Center Region Crop 1, Jeffrey K Lovelace

Vela SNR Center Region Crop 1

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Data Acquisition from 2019-02-14 until 2019-04-29.

Original image scale: 3.5

RGB Stars, Synthetic Lum

R = Hα + SII

G = OIII

B = OIII + Hα (10%)

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This is a crop from a much larger image of the famous Vela SNR. What an astounding blast it must have been about 12,000 years ago when a massive star collapsed then exploded creating both the Vela Supernova Remnant nebula and the Vela Pulsar. In fact, the association of this SNR with the Pulsar served as evidence that neutron stars (including pulsars) result from supernovae.

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