Cassiopeia A - 3D Fly-through

/ sciencereason ... The Beautiful Universe: Chandra in HD (3): Cassiopeia A - 3-D Fly-through.
Since its launch on July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been NASA's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy, taking its place in the fleet of "Great Observatories."
---
Please SUBSCRIBE to Science & Reason:
• / best0fscience
• / sciencetv
• / ffreethinker
• / rationalhumanism
---
The many faces of Cassiopeia A
Cassiopeia A (Cas A), the youngest known supernova remnant in the Milky Way galaxy, has been observed with unprecedented precision over the five year lifetime of the Chandra Observatory. From one of the first observations in 1999 to a million second long observation in 2004, Chandra images have been instrumental in unlocking the mysteries of this recent stellar explosion.
• chandra.harvard.edu/fifth/casa/
---
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is a telescope specially designed to detect X-ray emission from very hot regions of the Universe such as exploded stars, clusters of galaxies, and matter around black holes. Because X-rays are absorbed by Earth's atmosphere, Chandra must orbit above it, up to an altitude of 139,000 km (86,500 mi) in space.
The Smithsonian's Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA, hosts the Chandra X-ray Center which operates the satellite, processes the data, and distributes it to scientists around the world for analysis. The Center maintains an extensive public web site about the science results and an education program.
Chandra carries four very sensitive mirrors nested inside each other. The energetic X-rays strike the insides of the hollow shells and are focussed onto electronic detectors at the end of the 9.2- m (30-ft.) optical bench. Depending on which detector is used, very detailed images or spectra of the cosmic source can be made and analyzed.
Chandra has imaged the spectacular, glowing remains of exploded stars, and taken spectra showing the dispersal of elements. Chandra has observed the region around the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way, and found black holes across the Universe.
Chandra has traced the separation of dark matter from normal matter in the collision of galaxies in a cluster and is contributing to both dark matter and dark energy studies. As its mission continues, Chandra will continue to discover startling new science about our high-energy Universe.
• chandra.harvard.edu/
.

[@maddtappin]

This give me chills. When I see this, I think...I'm not supposed to be seeing this, but I am.

[@thecaneater]

I love you, science. You're so good to us. Giving us so many neat things.
Also, the music at the end totally sounds like music from Final Fantasy 6 or 7.

[@jdbtwo]

Truly spectacular!

[@luckystrke]

thats cool. i wonder if thats what a neutron star would look like up close....

[@jebus6kryst]

Wow. Pretty.

[@xtremetom180]

beautiful, looks so amazing

[@bdwilson100029223]

Nobody has ever said this, but how wide is this thing? It's impossible to guess how far apart the blue clouds on each side are. 10 miles..1000 miles...1,000,000 miles?

[@Ruthy1950]

Amazing video, really interesting Information I love stuff like this. Thank you for sharing

[@Nerolista]

@thecaneater I know, right? Totally reminded me of Nobuo Uematsu.

[@F33bs]

@Farf420 See that's weird because I've never played FF and I feel like I remember it.

[@F33bs]

I swear I've heard that song in the middle from a video game somewhere.

[@tsjoencinema]

I like the music for once.

[@ComeToJesus]

@julsHz Thanks for your replies. It's a little disheartening though. I always imagined these magnificent displays being out there among the darkness.

[@ComeToJesus]

@julsHz Thanks for the reply. So if you were placed in space looking at something like this, you would not see it as it is presented in this video, right?

[@BrutalTruthMediaMaui]

Heart chakra frequencies

[@MountainGirl2517]

Man, that was cool but also HALF OF THAT WAS MUSIC AND PICTURES.

[@ComeToJesus]

So how much of the colourful displays can be seen with the naked eye (were one within viewing distance/using a powerful telescope). Are things such as this and various nebulae really as colourful as they are presented in photographs? Or are the photos achieved using xray/ifrared/etcetc?

[@Darksagan]

@MilitantAtheistAhole Damn right!

[@matt7kiwi]

@sofiarune cheers

[@bdwilson100029223]

@matt7kiwi
It can't be that far apart can it? Our entire solar system is only a few light HOURS across. If our sun exploded, I don't see how it's cloud could possibly reach the size of a single light YEAR without spreading out to the point of being virtually transparent..

[@mgaeeeee9150]

Where in the constillation is CasA?

[@matt7kiwi]

@bdwilson1000
I think you'll find it's 100s of 1000s of light years, not miles :)

[@YashinNashi]

@thecaneater
I was gonna say that about the music. I never played 7 so I'm thinking 6.

[@EntranceDenied]

@thecaneater LOL I thought so too.

[@billypilgrim3795]

and YET look at all of the SCIENCE used for you to sit in your home or parent's home and type out your aches & pains to other people world wide!

[@lazyperfectionist1]

Good, but it needs more bagpipe music.

[@Farf420]

@F33bs sounds like FF7

[@matchu4444]

So cool. I can't wait until humans can expliot the rest of the universe!!! Too bad it won't be in my time. I only got to see Earth.........sigh

[@txdmsk]

Astronomy is.. Sexy..

[@szammi47]

damn why you flirting with my girl homie? science is my girl,stop trying to be a science blocker

[@HoneyNVinegar]

Lovely.