by Ann » Sat Jun 01, 2019 6:59 am
Interesting. The bright sources in this picture look like magnets in the sky, surrounded by funny-looking field lines. Well, I guess that many of them are magnets, so to speak, such as highly magnetized pulsars or maybe magnetars.
Some of the "field lines" are funny-looking indeed. Several of them are short, and some are jiggly. Some of them must be caused by energetic cosmic rays, right?
I'll give you a dose of pareidolia for free. There is a white blob at about 10 o'clock, which is not surrounded by "field lines". A short "quarter circle line" seems to point straight at this blob. And look, the blob seems to have eyes and a mouth. Not only that, but the blob seems to be puking, spitting out some orange goo! He is ever so slightly reminiscent of
this guy.
I understand that this is an all-sky map. That must mean that most of the sources in the picture are located beyond the Milky Way. But there is one bright source at far right, which might be located in the Milky Way, if the band of the Milky Way cuts this picture horizontally. Could this source by any chance be
the Vela Pulsar, the Crab pulsar, or Geminga?
Ann
Interesting. The bright sources in this picture look like magnets in the sky, surrounded by funny-looking field lines. Well, I guess that many of them are magnets, so to speak, such as highly magnetized pulsars or maybe magnetars.
Some of the "field lines" are funny-looking indeed. Several of them are short, and some are jiggly. Some of them must be caused by energetic cosmic rays, right?
I'll give you a dose of pareidolia for free. There is a white blob at about 10 o'clock, which is not surrounded by "field lines". A short "quarter circle line" seems to point straight at this blob. And look, the blob seems to have eyes and a mouth. Not only that, but the blob seems to be puking, spitting out some orange goo! He is ever so slightly reminiscent of [url=https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZZ85Sjovwmk/hqdefault.jpg]this guy[/url].
I understand that this is an all-sky map. That must mean that most of the sources in the picture are located beyond the Milky Way. But there is one bright source at far right, which might be located in the Milky Way, if the band of the Milky Way cuts this picture horizontally. Could this source by any chance be [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/0907/Fermi_pulsar_map_labels_900.jpg]the Vela Pulsar, the Crab pulsar, or Geminga[/url]?
Ann