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 ...
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 ...