Put down the air guitar, pick up the space guitar 🎸🔥⁣ ⁣ A flame-throwing nebula shreds its way across the universe in this video from our NASAChandraXray and NASAHubble telescopes. Astronomers nicknamed this structure the Guitar Nebula because of the guitar-shaped bubbles streaming out from the pulsar in the lower left. (Don’t see the guitar? Swipe through for a hint.)⁣ ⁣ Meanwhile, X-rays seen by Chandra (displayed here in red) show a filament of energetic matter and antimatter particles blasting away from the pulsar; this red line is about two light-years (12 trillion miles or 18 trillion km) long. This rapidly-rotating, fast-moving star has a very strong magnetic field, which helps create the strange shapes shown in this video.⁣ ⁣ Video description: A six-second multiwavelength timelapse video of the Guitar Nebula. The guitar shape appears at the lower left, with the neck of the instrument pointing towards the upper left. The guitar shape is ghostly and translucent, resembling ...