SPACE WATCH
NASA – G327.1-1.1 is the aftermath of a massive star that exploded as a supernova in the Milky Way galaxy.
No clear explanation is yet known for the unusual nature of G327.1-1.1, including the off-center position of the pulsar wind nebula seen in the radio data and the comet-like shape of the X-ray emission. One possibility is that we are seeing the effects of a shock wave bouncing backwards off of the shell of material – or envelope — swept up by the blast wave produced by the explosion, the so-called “reverse shock” from the blast wave. The pulsar is moving upwards, away from the center of the explosion, but the pulsar wind nebula is being swept towards the bottom-left of the image by the reverse shock wave that is also traveling towards the bottom-left.
Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/T.Temim et al. and ESA/XMM-Newton Radio: SIFA/MOST and CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA Infrared: UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF/2MASS more> http://tinyurl.com/23ae7dw
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