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In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a curious image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that’s shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observe this object. Now, new radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), has been combined with Chandra’s X-ray data to provide a fresh view of this exploded star and its environment, to help understand its peculiar properties and shape.
Source: nasa.gov/image-article/x-ray-and-radio-go-hand-in-hand-in-new-image
A paper describing this work, led by Shumeng Zhang of the University of Hong Kong, with co-authors Stephen C.Y. Ng of the University of Hong Kong and Niccolo’ Bucciantini of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, has been published in The Astrophysical Journal and is available at iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf333.
In 2009, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released a curious image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that’s shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes to continue to observe this object. Now, new radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), has been combined with Chandra’s X-ray data to provide a fresh view of this exploded star and its environment, to help understand its peculiar properties and shape.
Source: nasa.gov/image-article/x-ray-and-radio-go-hand-in-hand-in-new-image
A paper describing this work, led by Shumeng Zhang of the University of Hong Kong, with co-authors Stephen C.Y. Ng of the University of Hong Kong and Niccolo’ Bucciantini of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, has been published in The Astrophysical Journal and is available at iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf333.
