Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star

Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 01:07 in Astronomy & Space

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted itself to smithereens. Although rings and spheres of material are common in the universe, this one is not like any ring astronomers have ever seen before.

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