A glowing nebula located approximately 2,700 light-years from Earth resembles a guitar with a bright pulsar at the tip of the ...
New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and ...
Astronomers have discovered a unique nebula shaped like a guitar using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space ...
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 ...
New images of the massive structure is helping astronomers identify the tune being played by the celestial guitar.
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 ...
The Guitar Nebula, powered by pulsar PSR B2224+65, produces glowing particles and X-rays. This reveals how particles travel ...