A glowing hand stretches across the cosmos, with its palm and fingers sculpted from the wreckage of a massive stellar explosion. The eerie structure is part of the nebula MSH 15-52, powered by pulsar B1509-58 — a rapidly spinning neutron star that is only about 12 miles (20 kilometers) in diameter. By combining radio data from the Australia Telescope Compact …
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Photographer Joshua Thum captured a shot of the mystery spiral glowing above Wisconsin’s Yerkes Observatory while trying to snap “shooting stars” from the Perseids meteor shower. (Image credit: Joshua Thum) While searching for “shooting stars” from the Perseid meteor shower, stargazers across large parts of the U.S. were recently treated to a stunning surprise: a giant spiral of ghostly white …
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In a remarkable discovery off the western coast of the Galápagos Islands, scientists have pinpointed a previously unknown hydrothermal vent field, thanks to a trail of ghostly crabs. For over 20 years, researchers had suspected the presence of this underwater feature but had struggled to identify its exact location. However, a team of researchers recently followed a series of squat …
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