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NASA Spots ‘Flame-Throwing Guitar Nebula’ Shredding Antimatter Along Cosmic String
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NASA Spots ‘Flame-Throwing Guitar Nebula’ Shredding Antimatter Along Cosmic String

Radical new photos show the undead star that formed the “Guitar Nebula” firing an epic flamethrower-like jet that winds along one of our galaxy’s magnetic strings. The Cosmic Lantern, which contains antimatter particles created from pure energy, helps scientists learn more about the space between stars, GODMOTHER say.

The Nebula guitar is a giant cloud of hydrogen gas located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in Milky way which formed from the collapse of B2224+65a Pulsara rapidly rotating neutron star left over from the collapse of a massive star. The unusually shaped mass is a “bow wave”, made up of material blown off B2224+65 by stellar winds as the pulsar moves through space, much like the wave created on the front of a boat as it moves through water. From Earth, it looks like a simple acoustic instrument. But in reality it is a chaotic, shapeless mass flowing behind the dead star.