Discover the Celestial Remnants: NASA Telescopes Capture the Enigmatic ‘Bones’ of a Deceased Star

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The image is at once haunting and beautiful, resembling a ghostly purple and white hand reaching its fingers through the surrounding starry skies.

Released by NASA this week, it shows the remains of a supergiant star, more than 16,000 light-years from Earth, that ran out of fuel and collapsed, according to a NASA news release. What’s left is an ultradense core, called a neutron star.

The image was captured by two of NASA’s X-ray space telescopes — the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE. IXPE observed the neutron star’s nebula, composed of a giant, luminescent cloud of dust and gas, over a period of 17 days. That’s the longest the telescope has looked at any single

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