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Astronomers have discovered a strange new source.
The Hubble telescope has discovered a mysterious infrared source relatively close to the sun. It is connected to a neutron star, but its size does not allow scientists to understand its nature.
This writes the Chronicle.info with reference to rambler.ru.
Outer space is filled with unusual signals and radiation sources whose nature is still unclear to astrophysicists. An example is Fast Radio Bursts (FRB), with powerful millisecond radio broadcasts occurring thousands of times a day, but still a mystery.
Now, astronomers have discovered a new strange source, this time in the infrared (heat) field of electromagnetic radiation. It was discovered by scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope in the vicinity of the near-sun neutron star about 800 years ago. Strange radiation was discovered by a group of researchers under the direction of the University of Pennsylvania (United States) in collaboration with Turkish scientists. The study of the radiation source will help better understand the evolution of neutron stars – extremely dense objects that remain in place of supernova explosions.
"This neutron star belongs to the group of seven nearby X-ray pulsars, the seven magnificent ones (astronomers believe that the unique young neutron star with a strong magnetic field) is hotter than it should, given their age and age. the energy generated by braking, "says Bettina Posselt, professor of astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, author of the article in The Astrophysical Journal. – We found a wide area of infrared radiation around this neutron star RX J0806.4-4123, whose length is about 200 astronomical units (distance from the Sun to Pluto from 2.5 to 2.5) ".
Astronomers first discovered a neutron star associated with such an extended radiation source, and only in the infrared.
Based on previous observations, astronomers believe that they see much more intense infrared radiation than that which can come from this neutron star.
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