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Old 03-19-2008, 04:07 PM  
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Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat View Post
It's a super nova (I think).

If you're interested in such things, you can read about it in this article,
I haven't read it though, just took the pic

http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/N/Neutron+Star
Ahh... it's an actual photo, and not just an artist's rendering.

Nice... which would make it impossible to be a black hole, of course (since you can't see black holes, per se) but it is the next best thing: a Pulsar.

When large stars collapse, they can form black holes. When smaller stars collapse, they can form neutrons... if neutrons are spinning around really really fast (like 60 rotations a second), they're called Pulsars... and that's what that is.

And they do look cool, for sure. Thanks for sharing.
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