January 12, 2021

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NEUTRON STAR

Photo courtesy of NASA
In 2018 Astronomers discovered for the first time, a special kind of neutron star that exists outside of the Milky Way galaxy. Neutron stars are the ultra dense cores of massive stars that collapse and undergo a supernova explosion. This discovered neutron star is a rare kind that has both a low magnetic field and no stellar companion. Its history seems unexplainable.

Back in the 1980s scientists had discovered some remnants of the supernova E0102. It was located in the Small Magellanic Cloud more than 200,000 light years from Earth. In 2018 astronomers confirmed the presence of a neutron star inside its own visible light-emitting wreath of gas, using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatorys Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. So amazing.

 


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