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Stellar Rubble May be Planetary Building Blocks Artist Concept
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About this work
This artist concept depicts a type of dead star called a pulsar and the surrounding disk of rubble discovered by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The pulsar, called 4U 0142+61, was once a massive star until about 100,000 years ago.
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Credit lineStellar Rubble May be Planetary Building Blocks Artist Concept. NASA/JPL, 2006-04-05. Public domain. ID: PIA08040.
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