Posted on 10/22/2018 6:30:18 AM PDT by C19fan
An amazing new Nasa image captures the youngest pulsar ever found by scientists.
The pulsar - an ultra-dense chunk of a star leftover from its explosive death into a supernova - sits just 19,000 light years from Earth.
It provides our best look yet at the early stages of star death, a mysterious and violent process that scientists still don't fully understand.
The image was taken using Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting telescope that has been out of action for nearly two weeks following a catastrophic gyroscope failure.
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This amazing image was taken by Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory. It shows Kes 75, an object 19,000 light years from Earth which scientist now believe contains the youngest pulsar ever found. Blue regions show high-energy X-rays created by winds of energetic matter and particles, while purple areas show the debris created by the supernova explosion
*ping*
there’s a whole lot of radiation in outer space. :)
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Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
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