An astronomer discovers brightly glowing disk of gas in spac…
An astronomer discovers brightly glowing disk of gas in space surrounding a neutron star, like the one pictured below. What would they say happened? Attributions Images NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI); Radio: NRAO/AUI/NSF GBT+VLA 1.4 GHz mosaic (Dyer, Maddalena and Cornwell, NRAO); X-ray: NASA/CXC/Rutgers/G. Cassam-Chenai and J. Hughes et al.; Optical: F.Winkler/Middlebury College and NOAO/AURA/NSF; and DSS. Full-shell Image of SN 1006 Showing Location of Hubble Observations . (public domain). Via NASA.