Waspie_Dwarf Posted April 29, 2015 #1 Share Posted April 29, 2015 NASA's NuSTAR Captures Possible 'Screams' from Zombie Stars Peering into the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has spotted a mysterious glow of high-energy X-rays that, according to scientists, could be the "howls" of dead stars as they feed on stellar companions."We can see a completely new component of the center of our galaxy with NuSTAR's images," said Kerstin Perez of Columbia University in New York, lead author of a new report on the findings in the journal Nature. "We can't definitively explain the X-ray signal yet -- it's a mystery. More work needs to be done." The center of our Milky Way galaxy is bustling with young and old stars, smaller black holes and other varieties of stellar corpses – all swarming around a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. Read more... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubblykiss Posted April 29, 2015 #2 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Zombie Stars? Finally NASA figures out how to make space sexy again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonardo Posted April 29, 2015 #3 Share Posted April 29, 2015 The Squawking Dead. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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