Circle of Ashes
This plot shows that a pulsar, the remnant of a stellar explosion, is surrounded by a disk of its own ashes. The disk, revealed by the two data points at the far right from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, is the first ever found around a pulsar.
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NASA ID
PIA08041
Date Created
April 5, 2006
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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