XMM-Newton Discovers Strange-Shaped Supernova Remnant

XMM-Newton has just released this beautiful image of a supernova remnant and its companion neutron star. To be more accurate, it didn’t “discover” the object, remnant G350.1-0.3 had previously been mistaken to be a distant galaxy. The X-ray observatory has reclassified the object as a Milky Way binary system with one neutron star and the … Continue reading XMM-Newton Discovers Strange-Shaped Supernova Remnant