{"id":199892,"date":"2024-11-21T01:32:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/chandra-and-hubble-tune-into-flame-throwing-guitar-nebula"},"modified":"2024-11-21T01:32:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:32:28","slug":"chandra-and-hubble-tune-into-flame-throwing-guitar-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/chandra-and-hubble-tune-into-flame-throwing-guitar-nebula","title":{"rendered":"Chandra and Hubble tune into \u2018flame-throwing\u2019 Guitar Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gD__Iw8y7HQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a \u201cflame-throwing guitar\u201d has now been spotted moving through space. Astronomers have captured movies of this extreme cosmic object using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>The new movie of Chandra (red) and Palomar (blue) data helps break down what is playing out in the Guitar Nebula. X-rays from Chandra show a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/filament\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">filament<\/a> of energetic matter and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/antimatter+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">antimatter particles<\/a>, about two light-years or 12 trillion miles long, blasting away from the pulsar (seen as the bright white dot connected to the filament).<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have nicknamed the structure connected to the pulsar PSR B2224+65 as the \u201cGuitar Nebula\u201d because of its distinct resemblance to the instrument in glowing hydrogen light. The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/guitar\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">guitar<\/a> shape comes from bubbles blown by particles ejected from the pulsar through a steady wind. Because the pulsar is moving from the lower right to the upper left, most of the bubbles were created in the past as the pulsar moved through a medium with variations in density.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally found only in heavy metal bands or certain post-apocalyptic films, a \u201cflame-throwing guitar\u201d has now been spotted moving through space. Astronomers have captured movies of this extreme cosmic object using NASA\u2019s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope. The new movie of Chandra (red) and Palomar (blue) data helps break down what is playing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}