The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton spacecraft has X-rayed this beautiful cosmic creature, known as the Manatee Nebula, pinpointing the location of unusual particle acceleration in its ‘head’. The Manatee Nebula, also known as W50, is thought to be a large supernova remnant created when a gian
remnant. Known as SS 433, this central ‘microquasar’, emits powerful jets of particles traveling at speeds close to a quarter the speed of light that punch through the gassy shells, creating the double-lobed shape.
SS 433 is identified by the red dot in the middle of the image. The X-ray data acquired by XMM-Newton are represented in yellow , magenta , and cyan , while red is radio and green optical wavelengths imaged by the Very Large Array and the Skinakas Observatory in Greece, respectively.
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