Have this friend who is newish to #astrophotography here in Sydney. He did 40-hour mosaic on the Vela Supernova remnant in h-alpha/[O-III] …. And holy heck it is incomprehensibly magnificent! Those are exploded star gutz. At its heart is the Vela pulsar. 🔭 Shared with permission. 📸 David Elford - ThreadSky

cosmicrami.com • 8 days ago

Have this friend who is newish to #astrophotography here in Sydney. He did 40-hour mosaic on the Vela Supernova remnant in h-alpha/[O-III] …. And holy heck it is incomprehensibly magnificent!

Those are exploded star gutz. At its heart is the Vela pulsar. 🔭

Shared with permission.

📸 David Elford

Comments

palomarskies.bsky.social•7 days ago

Wow!

whatisitfullof.bsky.social•8 days ago

That’s wild for a relative newbie. His processing game is on!

stellerarts.bsky.social•7 days ago

SHEEEEESH

cosmicrami.com•7 days ago

it's pretty epic, huh?!

jgeorge44.bsky.social•8 days ago

Funny, he doesn’t *look* newish…

Stellar work (pun intended)

susannagrace.bsky.social•8 days ago

Mesmerizing and magnificent. Thanks for sharing that.

cosmicrami.com•8 days ago

Elfie is awesome and you should follow his recent immersion and obviously very good work in astrophotography.

His Instagram is here: https://www.instagram.com/elfn8r?igsh=MWV3aWRrN3VuNDFkdg==

cosmicrami.com•8 days ago

The Vela #pulsar is very bright in our skies (in radio). The good folks at @jodrellbank.bsky.social have converted radio light into sound and you can hear what the rapid rotation of this neutron star sound like in this short video 🔭📡

Imagine the energy required to rotate an entire star this fast?!

astrovivi.bsky.social•8 days ago

oh that's so cool

andyroz.bsky.social•8 days ago

Just mentioning (because I had to look it up), this pulsar is about 20km in diameter and is spinning 11 times a second, which is insane. Surface speed of 790,000+Kph?