Flaring Neutron Star (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Flaring Neutron Star

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Swift's X-Ray Telescope captured an apparent expanding halo around the flaring neutron star SGR J1550-5418. The halo formed as X-rays from the brightest flares scattered off of intervening dust clouds.

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NASA/Swift/Jules Halpern (Columbia Univ.)

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