# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BMOx_julzKk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11736400-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/d5c719578c.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-10-31T14:39:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Dead Star's Ghostly Glow: Astronomers discovered a real "tell-tale heart" in space, 6,500 light-years from Earth. The "heart" is the crushed core of a long-dead star, called a neutron star, which exploded as a supernova and is now still beating with rhythmic precision. Evidence of its heartbeat are rapid-fire, lighthouse-like pulses of energy from the fast-spinning neutron star. The stellar relic is embedded in the center of the Crab Nebula, the expanding, tattered remains of the doomed star.

Credits: NASA and ESA, Acknowledgment: M. Weisskopf/Marshall Space Flight Center

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