Hello Stardust!

Happy New Year!     2014!

Wow we really are living in the future! 

If you reminisce on 2013, perhaps the thoughts of your year may not include the trillions and trillions of molecules that you are made of.

 

A new image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star. The composite image of G54.1+0.3 shows X-rays from Chandra in blue, and data from Spitzer in green (shorter wavelength infrared) and red-yellow (longer wavelength infrared). Scientists think that a pulsar (the white source in the center) is sending off a wind that is heating up remnant supernova dust.

 As they might say in the south "Honey, you are made of sweet cosmic stardust!"

The shapes of supernova leftovers can tell scientists the origin of this explosion, with Type 1a supernova from thermonuclear explosions leaving behind symmetric remnants (right). And supernova created when a massive star collapses tend to leave behind asymmetrical remnants (left).

                     Happy New Year Stardust! 

You are looking good this year and you always have!