NASA's Image of Supernova Captured by Chandra X-Ray is Out of this World
News 18National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s shared a spectacular image of a supernova captured by Chandra X-ray Observatory on its Instagram page last weekend. In its caption, NASA wrote that the bright source at the centre of supernova remnant RCW 103 is a neutron star. To add, NASA mentioned that a sugar-cube-sized amount of neutron star material would weigh roughly the weight of Mount Everest.The post has garnered over 20, 246 likes on the photo-sharing site. After data was collected from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, ESA's XMM-Newton, astronomers expect that a single neutron star will be spinning swiftly after its birth in the supernova explosion and will then slow down gradually as it loses energy. However, astronomers believe that the magnetar or the neutron star within RCW 103 is nearly 2,000 years old, which is not enough time for the pulsar to slow down to a period of 24,000 seconds by traditional means.
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