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Astronomers May Have Found a Star That’s Just 33 Years Old – Futurism
“There has to be something in the cloud that has heated up the dust and which makes it shine.”
A team of astronomers have observed what they believe to be a neutron star being born following a supernova first detected in 1987, in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way 170,000 light-years from Earth, dubbed SN 1987A.
Until now, astronomers werent sure if the neutron star survived the powerful event and didnt just collapse in on itself to form a black hole but a new paper published last week in The Astrophysical Journal suggests that it may have survived after all.
That means the neutron sta…
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