NASAのインスタグラム(nasagoddard) - 6月22日 03時03分
Astronomers Find the First 'Wind Nebula' Around a Rare Ultra-Magnetic Neutron Star
Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time. The find offers a unique window into the properties, environment and outburst history of magnetars, which are the strongest magnets in the universe.
A neutron star is the crushed core of a massive star that ran out of fuel, collapsed under its own weight, and exploded as a supernova. Each one compresses the equivalent mass of half a million Earths into a ball just 12 miles (20 kilometers) across, or about the length of New York's Manhattan Island. Neutron stars are most commonly found as pulsars, which produce radio, visible light, X-rays and gamma rays at various locations in their surrounding magnetic fields. When a pulsar spins these regions in our direction, astronomers detect pulses of emission, hence the name.
Read more: http://go.nasa.gov/28PVUop
Credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/Younes et al. 2016 #nasagoddard #space #neutronstar #nebula
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