Astronomy Picture of the Day
Posted By admin On April 29, 2011 @ 11:05 pm In Photo Essays | Comments Disabled
Tycho! Tycho! [1] burning bright
In the darkness of the night,
What exploding white dwarf star [2]
Did frame thy remnant from afar,
[3]
Tycho’s Supernova Remnant
X-Ray Image Credit: NASA [4] / CXC [5] / F.J. Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) et al. [6]
Poem: [7] Alice Allen [8] (apologies to William Blake [9])
Explanation:
Tycho! Tycho! [1] burning bright
In the darkness of the night,
What exploding white dwarf star [2]
Did frame thy remnant from afar,
In the distant deep dark skies
Under gaze of human eyes?
Seen by mortals and their ma
Named for one called Tycho Brahe. [10]
Visit the NASA/JPL website to view more Astronomy Pictures of the Day [11]
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URLs in this post:
[1] Tycho! Tycho!: http://bb.nightskylive.net/asterisk/discuss_apod.php?date=110430
[2] What exploding white dwarf star: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/tycho2/
[3] Image: http://www.berthoudrecorder.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/tychosnr_chandra2000c.jpg
[4] NASA: http://www.nasa.gov/
[5] CXC: http://chandra.harvard.edu/
[6] F.J. Lu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) et al.: http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3829
[7] Poem:: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/41
[8] Alice Allen: mailto:%20alice[dot]allen1[at]verizon[dot]net
[9] William Blake: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15523
[10] Tycho Brahe.: http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html
[11] Astronomy Pictures of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
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