To mark this year’s Halloween, NASA has shared a new image of a star nebula that was taken by its X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory. The image is part of a study that saw the space observatory set its own record for focusing on an object in space for 17 days after it became […]
To mark this year’s Halloween, NASA has shared a new image of a star nebula that was taken by its X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory. The image is part of a study that saw the space observatory set its own record for focusing on an object in space for 17 days after it became operational in December 2021. This image resembles a human hand, showing a wind nebula 16,000 light-years away from Earth. Thousands from light years away from Earth, the pulsar PSR B1509-58 shows the remains a dead supergiant star and is part of a star creation region called a nebula.NASA Captures Hand Shaped Emissions From A Neutron Star Through Its Space Observatory
Within the known universe, supergiants are among some of the biggest stars. Most of these stars are called main sequence stars, with the most commonly known example of them being the Sun.
