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| The long jet of the lighthouse nebula |
Lighthouse nebula was formed by the wind of a pulsar, which is a magnetized neutron star. Energetic particles generated by the pulsar are swept back into the wind's tail that trails up to the left. This image was taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Both pulsar and expanding remnant debris field are the aftermath of the core-collapse-explosion of a massive star, with the pulsar moved out by the supernova explosion. This is really cool because it shows the image through an x-ray telescope and clearly shows what is going on in the picture.
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