<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">NASA shared a mesmerising image of a supernova captured by the Chandra X-ray Observatory telescope. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration shared the picture on its Instagram page which shows the rotating neutron stars, ever detected in 2016. It exhibits properties of a highly magnetized neutron star or magnetar, yet its deduced spin period is thousands of times longer than any pulsar ever observed, said NASA in a press release.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The composite image shows the remains of a supernova which is around 9,000 light-year from Earth, in three bands of X-ray light. In this image, the lowest energy X-rays from Chandra are red, the medium band is green, and the highest energy X-rays are blue. The bright blue X-ray source in the middle of RCW 103 is 1E 1613, according to the press release.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">NASA in its Instagram caption reads, "Our Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory telescope and several other X-ray telescopes observed one of the most extreme rotating neutron stars or pulsars - ever detected in 2016. Swift Observatory helps detect gamma-ray bursts - large gamma radiation pulses which form when a massive star collapses, creating a black hole - using optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray light."</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It further added, "This composite image shows the remains of a supernova, around 9,000 light-years from Earth, in three bands of X-ray light detected by @NASAChandraXRay, with low energy X-rays in red, medium in green, and the highest in blue."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Image description: Blank space as black as #Midnight is dotted with tiny white stars across the image. A swirling labyrinth of colours of blue, green, yellow, purple, and red makes up the center of the photo surrounding the neutron star in bright blue," NASA wrote.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The image has amassed several likes and comments. Social media users were stunned after seeing the image, a user wrote, "Space Midnight should be a new colour." Another commented, "I see what you did there NASA!" The third commented, "This is soooo beautiful. Our universe can be so cinematographic," the third commented.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Swift detection caught astronomers' attention because the source exhibited intense, extremely rapid fluctuations on a time scale of milliseconds, similar to other known magnetars. These exotic objects possess the most powerful magnetic fields in the Universe -trillions of times that observed on the Sun - and can erupt with enormous amounts of energy, NASA said in a release. NDTV</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>