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Travels backward in time.

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I found this when playing with WorldWideTelescope:-

It's in Lyra. Is it a supernova remnant? Why does it look as though someone has tried to rub it out?

Hello Randall

The "extra lines" in your picture, which look like "rubbing-out lines", are probably the supports in the telescope, for the reflector mirror assembly.

If you look carefully, you can see they are quite regular, and thus surely they are from telescope fittings.

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Thanks for replying Sparky: I know nothing about this sort of thing, but, you've sort of confirmed that it does look odd. This is the Hubble picture of the same thing using google earth:

What do you think?

Hello again, Randall,

Those artefacts in the view field, are definitely telescope support fittings.

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If its in lyra its probably the ring nebula, which is claimed tobe a super nova remanant.

oilcan13

Wouldn't that make it "25,140" years ago instead, give or take a drop of time dilation (each observer having a personal measure of time in the Einstein universe, that sort of thing)?