"red hornet's nest" AMW6qh9es4

• by suelaine

  What is this unusual feature? As volunteers, I believe that we deserve answers to our questions. Could someone out there tune in and answer some of our questions, please.

  Posted March 30, 2012 3:43 PM

• by skendrew scientist, admin

  Have you got a link to the image?

  Posted April 11, 2012 10:26 PM

• by suelaine

  OBJECT AMW00016j7
  -0.1870000, 43.267
  AMW00016j7close
  This is as close as I can get to a link. Thanks sue Also see below in my profile "what is this" shows a picture of the "hornet's nest"

  Posted April 11, 2012 11:08 PM

• by skendrew scientist, admin

  Thanks - I can see it. This is a well-known supernova remnant called W49B (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W49B), located in the large W49 molecular cloud. It's around 35000 lightyears away, and when the star exploded it may have caused a gamma ray burst. The W49 cloud also hosts on of the most active regions of star formation in the whole Galaxy - it's a pretty interesting region.

  Posted April 14, 2012 10:19 PM

• by suelaine

  Thanks Sue

  Posted April 16, 2012 2:43 AM

• by universehunter

  What is the red object to the lower left of the nest? I'm interested to find out what it is.

  Posted May 21, 2012 4:27 PM