NASA shares stunning image of lonely neutron star spotted outside Milky Way; see pic

NASA on January 4 shared a captivating im of a ‘special’, lonely neutron star spotted outside of Milky Way galaxy for first tie ever on NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and European Sourn Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Taking to its official handle on Instagram, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shared breathtaking photograph of newly identified neutron star 200,000 light-years away from Earth. “Oxygen-rich superva remnants like E0102 are important for understanding how massive stars fuse lighter elements into heavier ones before y explode,” ncy informed. It ded that remnants from original explosion are seen in for several thousand years and contain debris ejected from star’s interior. 

According to NASA’s blogpost, neutron star located within remains of a superva kwn as 1E 0102.2-7219 (E0102) is a rare variety of stellar body detected by NASA that has both a low magnetic field and companion. solitary star was found embedded in a Small Mllanic Cloud. “Neutron stars are ultra-dense cores of massive stars that collapse and undergo a superva explosion,” ministration explained. NASA informed that new composite im of E0102 that was discovered more than three deces ago allowed astromers and scientists to decode new details about star inside it. Oxygen-rich superva remnants, created after massive stars fused lighter elements into heavier ones, ejected from star’s interior at millions of miles per hour. 

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“Chandra observations of E0102 show that superva remnant is dominated by a large ring-shaped structure in X-rays, associated with blast wave of superva,” NASA explained. 

“ new MUSE data revealed a smaller ring of gas (in bright red) that is expanding more slowly than blast wave. At center of this ring is a blue point-like source of X-rays. Toger, small ring and point source act like a celestial bull’s eye,” it ded.

Neutron star similar to CAS A, Puppis A stars

According to NASA source of superva explosion about two millennia ago was newly discovered neutron star. It is also found to be similar to neutron stars of Cassiopeia A (Cas A) and Puppis A superva which do t have companions. However, astromers were unsure how did this neutron star end up in its current position, guessing that it “seemingly offset from center of circular shell of X-ray emission produced by blast wave of superva.” 

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