This mini-video uses multiple images from Chandra, taken in 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2021, superimposed over a single image of the Guitar Nebula. As a result, the nebula appears to stay exactly the ...
The shape of the nebula, or giant cloud of dust and gas, resembles a guitar with a rapidly rotating neutron star (also known as a pulsar) at the tip of the headstock, earning the cosmic structure the ...
As it hurtles through space, it is pumping out a flame-like filament of particles ... As the pulsar and its surrounding nebula of energetic particles have flown through space, they have collided ...
The setting Sun lit up the clouds producing some lovely colours. The Flame Nebula, designated as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277, is an emission nebula in the constellation Orion, lying some 900 to 1,500 ...
In a discovery straight out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers have captured the “Guitar Nebula” – a cosmic object resembling a flame-throwing guitar – moving through space. Using NASA’s ...