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Dead Star Creates Celestial Havoc
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A star's spectacular death in the constellation Taurus was observed on Earth as the supernova of 1054 A.D. Now, almost a thousand years later, a superdense neutron star left behind by the stellar death is spewing out a blizzard of extremely high-energy particles into the expanding debris field known as the Crab Nebula. This composite image uses data from three of NASA's Great Observatories.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineDead Star Creates Celestial Havoc. NASA/JPL, 2006-10-27. Public domain. ID: PIA01320.
