CosmicRami,
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Ohhh, some exciting astro news!!! 👀👀👀

A new paper has found more evidence for a neutron star in the supernova 1987A remnant using JWST's MIRI/MRS and NIRSpec/IFU!

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj5796

However, a secondary paper from a few days back, which also used JWST MIRI, found no evidence of the compact remnant in their data: https://arxiv.org/html/2402.14014v1

Almost 2 years ago I wrote a feature article looking at the evidence for this, so these new papers and findings are exciting!

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/feature/did-1987-supernova-produce-pulsar

📸 Fransson et al. / Bouchet et al.

four tile image showing the ring that forms the supernova remnant in four different filters of the JWST observation

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