On February 2, NASA shared stunning images of a mystical shooting star called pulsar SXP 1062. With its official Instagram account, the space administration shared the photograph of the bright galactic entity captured by NASA’s Hubble , born of a star that exploded almost 40,000 years ago. does. The image shows a rotating, super-dense core of the SXP 1062 that spins slowly, emitting vibrant X-ray bursts. According to NASA, the star was found to be associated with the MCSNR supernova remnant J0127-7332 after being observed in the RSS / SALT telescopes.
“The pulsars are about 20 kilometers in diameter. The bright source to the right of this image is the SXP 1062 pulsar and it rotates surprisingly slowly, about once every 18 minutes, ”NASA explained, sharing the hypnotic photograph.
“What is the fastest pulsar known? This is PSR J1748-2446ad and spins 716 times per second, ”the agency also reported.
According to an ESA statement, Pulsar SXP 1062 is embedded in the rest of the supernova that created it. Accretes the mass of its stellar companion, a massive, hot, blue “Be” star, the two objects forming an X / Be ray binary, according to the European agency. The star, known to be a cosmic mystery to scientists, has a colorful bubble-shaped signature of the supernova remnant in which protons and electrons fuse to form neutrons. NASA said in a statement that the neutrons in the Pulsar, as humid as a city, rotate rapidly making the vibrating light emitting pulse at regular intervals be the reason why the star is known as Pulsar.
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Combines the X-ray view
“Not many pulsars have been observed within its supernova remnant, and this is the first clear example of this pair in the supernova. [Small Magellanic Cloud]”Study leader Vincent Hénault-Brunet of the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom said in a statement to NASA. The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton observatory had detected the emitted X-rays by SXP 1062 making hundreds of revolutions the Internet was intrigued by the galactic entity and its interesting cosmic effect.ESA explained in a statement that the false color image “combines X-ray vision, based on XMM data -Newton with optical data from NOAO’s Cerro Tololo Inter -American Observatory (CTIO) “. In addition, he explained that the image was obtained using two special filters that revealed the oxygen glow of Pulsar.
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