{"id":858879,"date":"2026-09-24T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858879\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:18:13","slug":"apod-2026-september-24-the-ghosts-of-five-supernovas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/858879\/","title":{"rendered":"APOD: 2026 September 24 – The Ghosts of Five Supernovas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tExplanation: The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image<\/a>. It was acquired at Ouka\u00efmeden Observatory<\/a> in Morocco<\/a> with approximately 200 hours of observations and shows a large patch of the sky, equivalent to the area<\/a> of one thousand full moons tiled together, in the constellation of Auriga<\/a> (the charioteer<\/a>). From left to right, the five supernova remnants visible across the field are G181.1+9.5<\/a>, G182.4+4.3<\/a>, G179.0+2.6<\/a>, G180.0\u22121.7<\/a> (Sh2-240, the Spaghetti Nebula<\/a>), and G178.2\u22124.2<\/a>. They are highlighted in the annotated image<\/a>, together with open cluster<\/a> M37<\/a> and the Tadpole Nebula<\/a>. As each explosion expanded into space<\/a>, it created a growing shell of shocked gas and delicate filamentary structures shown in red (hydrogen<\/a>) and blue (oxygen<\/a>), respectively. These ancient stellar explosions happened independently; they are at various distances up to about several thousands of light-years<\/a> away from Earth and have estimated ages up to tens of thousands of years old<\/a>. Early humans may have seen them as bright new stars, fading over weeks or months.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow’s picture: what’s next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explanation: The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Ouka\u00efmeden Observatory in Morocco…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":858880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[337743,79,193],"class_list":["post-858879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-apod","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}