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Decades-long quest ends as the landmark observatory detects signs of the 1987 blast’s central neutron star. Decades-long quest ends as the landmark observatory detects signs of the 1987 blast’s central neutron star.
<p>Scientists can finally show that a neutron star formed from our most well-studied supernova, SN 1987A. The breakthrough was made possible thanks to the James Webb telescope.</p>
The JWST allowed astronomers to "see" behind cosmic dust and observe a neutron star at the center of Supernova 1987A.
Signs of highly ionized atoms in dusty clouds at SN 1987A’s explosion site suggest a powerful source of X-rays — likely a neutron star — lurks within.
Scientists have finally identified the progeny of that supernova - an enormously dense object called a neutron star. Two instruments on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that observed the supernova at infrared wavelengths spotted telltale chemical evidence involving argon and sulfur atoms indicating that a newborn neutron star is shrouded behind the debris left over from the blast, researchers said on Thursday. Such explosions can forge two different kinds of exotic compact objects: a black hole or a neutron star.