This plot shows that a pulsar, the remnant of a stellar explosion, is surrounded by a disk of its own ashes. The disk, revealed by the two data points at the far right from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, is the first ever found around a pulsar.
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Title: Circle of Ashes
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT
Date Created: 2006-04-05
Rights: JPL
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