Oleg Kargaltsev

Deep in space, a rapidly spinning neutron star, a pulsar nicknamed the Lighthouse, speeds through tenuous gas. Like a motorboat cutting through water, it leaves a glowing trail of charged particles behind. In X-rays, this trail appears as a bright tail and a thin filament stretching over many light-years.

Neutron stars, born in the fires of supernovae, continue to amaze even nearly a century after they were first predicted.