Ideas, Inventions And Innovations : Reclusive Neutron Star Thought Found among Debris of Famous Supernova
Ideas, Inventions And Innovations Reclusive Neutron Star Thought Found among Debris of Famous Supernova Astronomers now have evidence from two X-ray telescopes (Chandra and NuSTAR) for a key component of a famous supernova remnant. Supernova 1987A was discovered on Earth on February 24, 1987, making it the first such event witnessed during the telescopic age. For decades, scientists have searched for a neutron star in SN 1987A, i.e. a dense collapsed core that should have been left behind by the explosion. This latest study shows that a "pulsar wind nebula" created by such a neutron star ma...
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