#ctb1

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CTB1 (center) // Pranay Kanwar

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CTB 1 supernova,

NASA’s Fermi Satellite Clocks ‘Cannonball’ Pulsar Speeding Through Space !

The remnant of the supernova resembles a ghostly bubble in this image, which combines new 1.5 gigahertz observations from the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope (orange, near center) with older observations from the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory’s Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (1.42 gigahertz, magenta and yellow; 408 megahertz, green) and infrared data (blue). 

The VLA data clearly reveal the straight, glowing trail from pulsar J0002+6216 and the curved rim of the remnant’s shell. CTB 1 is about half a degree across, the apparent size of a full Moon.

Credits: Composite by Jayanne English, University of Manitoba, using data from NRAO/F. Schinzel et al., DRAO/Canadian Galactic Plane Survey and NASA/IRAS

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Novel Progress

At last, I have begun to rewrite Chapter 1. I have only managed to get the first scene out (800 words), but I am hoping that this is a good hook and that the Thornton family does not fight in this draft...

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CTB1 (Abel 85) supernova remnant in colour by swag72 on Flickr.