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First-Ever Sighting: Neutron Star’s Bizarre “Garden Sprinkler” Jet Captured


For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of a neutron star emitting a 'garden sprinkler-like' S-shaped jet in the binary system Circinus X-1, located over 30,000 light-years away. This phenomenon, similar to precession observed in black holes, illustrates the jet's direction change

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