Thursday, 9 October 2014

NASA's NuSTAR Telescope Discovers Shockingly Bright Dead Star

NuSTAR Finds a Pulse in Cigar Galaxy



Astronomers have found a pulsating, dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million suns. This is the brightest pulsar - a dense stellar remnant left over from a supernova explosion - ever recorded.










from News and Features - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory http://ift.tt/1EvIxDR

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