INSIDE A DEAD STAR
Around 6,500 light years away in the constellation of Taurus are the cosmic remains of an exploded star known as the Crab Nebula. Back in 2018 NASA created this image from a data collaboration between the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue and white), the Hubble Space Telescope (purple) and the Spitzer Space Telescope (pink). It shows that at the heart of the nebula lies a highly magnetised, spinning neutron star known as a pulsar, emitting powerful electromagnetic radiation from its magnetic poles. The Crab Pulsar is just 19 kilometres wide, spins 30 times a second and can produce 10 quadrillion electron volts.