APOD: 2021 January 23 - Recycling Cassiopeia A

Good "Saturday" Morning my good friend and Astronomy Enthusiast Maj William W. 'Bill' Price - thanks for sharing the APOD Titled: "Recycling Cassiopeia A." Have a great Saturday and enjoy the rest of the weekend Bill!

Belated thank my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Saturday, January 23, 2021 entitled "Recycling Cassiopeia A."

To be honest my first thought of seeing this 11,000 years stellar explosion reminded a scene from 'Gene Wilder' Young Frankenstein - pronounced Frankensteen :-)

I realize this is a snapshot of part of God's creation in the stars. HE designed stars to 'live' and in their ending to explode birthing 'life' to other stars - this is akin to the process of flora which spread seeds as their last act of life :-)


Image: Recycling Cassiopeia A - Image Credit - X-ray - NASA, CXC, SAO; Optical - NASA, STScI

APOD Background
"Explanation: Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and create heavy elements in their cores. After a few million years, the enriched material is blasted back into interstellar space where star formation can begin anew. The expanding debris cloud known as Cassiopeia A is an example of this final phase of the stellar life cycle. Light from the explosion which created this supernova remnant would have been first seen in planet Earth's sky about 350 years ago, although it took that light about 11,000 years to reach us. This false-color image, composed of X-ray and optical image data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, shows the still hot filaments and knots in the remnant. It spans about 30 light-years at the estimated distance of Cassiopeia A. High-energy X-ray emission from specific elements has been color coded, silicon in red, sulfur in yellow, calcium in green and iron in purple, to help astronomers explore the recycling of our galaxy's star stuff. Still expanding, the outer blast wave is seen in blue hues. The bright speck near the center is a neutron star, the incredibly dense, collapsed remains of the massive stellar core."

Frankenstein . Edgar Winters Group . 1973
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Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for sharing with us the APOD "Recycling Cassiopeia A.", which you stated as X-Ray data, which makes for an absolutely awesome image, worthy of a huge wall print in my view! Have a great day, Bill!