It is generally the location of dying stars and often ... bright centre of the nebula. It is assumed that a dead star, neutron, is buried at the centre of the nebula. "The "heart" is the crushed ...

IXPE observed the neutron star’s nebula, composed of a giant luminescent ... Using telescopes to document the magnetic fields of these dead, collapsed stars can reveal the behaviors of energized ...

The decades-long mystery of a never-ending explosion of X-rays around the remains of a dead star may have ... continuously fall onto the nebula’s white dwarf star, getting frazzled and glowing ...

Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to have been devoured by a dying star. Researchers have been detecting X ...

The snapshot features the vivid red nebula Sh2-46 — also known as Gum 80 — lit up in a fiery hue due to intense radiation coming from a brilliant blue-white star nestled at its heart.