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The Spike Nebula: How an educated artistic guess was fulfilled

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In 2024 , Tim Cunningham at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics studied an unusual supernova remnant called SN 1181 .

It has a striking structure quite unlike any previously seen.

But amazingly, I seem to have painted a similar object in 1975 , when I was working with Carl Sagan .

Cunningham ’s observational campaign continues, and he hopes soon to have a better reconstruction of the nebula using the Keck telescope. He has also proposed to study this remnant with the James Webb Space Telescope , and plans to propose for Hubble Space Telescope observations to gain exquisite images of this remarkable nebula. I'll be curious to see what further studies reveal, but as a space artist it is enormously gratifying to have imagined something close to what was found to exist. The post The Spike Nebula: How an educated artistic guess was fulfilled appeared first on Astronomy Magazine ..

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