Flying Through the Remains of a Dead Star: The Vela Supernova Remnant | ESO

Flying Through the Remains of a Dead Star: The Vela Supernova Remnant | ESO

In this video, we get to fly around in the highly detailed image of the beautiful and dramatic Vela supernova remnant, captured with OmegaCAM at the VST telescope, hosted at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The image consists of 554 million pixels, revealing myriad stars and thin gaseous filaments, the latter created by shock-waves from the explosion of a massive star 11,000 years ago. 

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/VPHAS+ team

Acknowledgement: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: October 31, 2022

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