# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj_W5jovkBN
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/534657-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/8a40a98086.jpg
- **Posted:** 2022-10-21T20:56:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Question…? Are you a Swiftie?
 
We are too! Our Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope and several other X-ray telescopes observed one of the most extreme rotating neutron stars or pulsars – ever detected in 2016.
 
Swift Observatory helps detect gamma-ray bursts – large gamma radiation pulses which form when a massive star collapses, creating a black hole – using optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray light.
 
This composite image shows the remains of a supernova, around 9,000 light-years from Earth, in three bands of X-ray light detected by NASAChandraXRay, with low energy X-rays in red, medium in green, and the highest in blue.
 
Image description: Blank space as black as #Midnight is dotted with tiny white stars across the image. A swirling labyrinth of colors of blue, green, yellow, purple, and red makes up the center of the photo surrounding the neutron star in bright blue.
 
Credit: NASA/CXC/University of Amsterdam/N.Rea et al; Optical: DSS
 
#Supernova #Star #NeutronStar #Galaxy #Space #Xray #Universe #NASA

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midnight, nasa, xray, universe, star, space, supernova, galaxy, neutronstar

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