
Space / 2010-03-29
Dusty Dead Star
Dusty Dead Star
NASA's image library records Dusty Dead Star.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
A composite image from NASA Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star, a supernova remnant called G54.1+0.3. The white source at the center is a dead star called a pulsar.