There’s this seemingly cool supernova before it exploded, and then the remnants of one located 9,000 light-years away, captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatory telescope. All the colors you see are the three bands of X-ray light detected by Chandra, with low energy X-rays in red, medium in green, and the highest in blue.
This zoomed out version of the same image depicts blank space as midnight black dotted with tiny white stars, while a swirling labyrinth of colors of blue, green, yellow, purple, and red makes up the center of the photo surrounding the neutron star in bright blue. Unlike this fading supernova, the remains are far more vibrant to say the least.
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Our Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope and several other X-ray telescopes observed one of the most extreme rotating neutron stars or pulsars – ever detected in 2016. Swift Observatory helps detect gamma-ray bursts – large gamma radiation pulses which form when a massive star collapses, creating a black hole – using optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray light,” said NASA.
