A group of dead stars known as “spider pulsars” are obliterating companion stars within their reach. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory of the globular cluster Omega Centauri is helping astronomers understand how these spider pulsars prey on their stellar companions. A pulsar is the spinning dense core that remains after a massive star collapses into itself to form a neutron star. Rapidly rotating […]
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Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, Marshall Space Flight Center, Neutron Stars, Pulsars, Spitzer Space Telescope, The Universe
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November 30, 2023
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