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Spectacular New Pictures Showing a Dead Star Circled by Light

New images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other telescopes reveal a rich landscape of stars and glowing clouds of gas in one of our closest neighboring galaxies, the Small Magellanic Cloud, including a dead star circled by light. The pictures have allowed astronomers to identify an elusive dead star buried among filaments ...

Troy Oakes

Light from a neutron star.