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Circle of Ashes
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This plot shows that a pulsar, the remnant of a stellar explosion, is surrounded by a disk of its own ashes. The disk, revealed by the two data points at the far right from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, is the first ever found around a pulsar.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineCircle of Ashes. NASA/JPL, 2006-04-05. Public domain. ID: PIA08041.
