Space telescopes have captured a "flame" bursting from the Guitar Nebula. Photos and video of the unique phenomenon

Two space telescopes captured the "flame" coming out of the Guitar Nebula. The "fiery" concert of Guitar Nebula was captured by Hubble and Chandra.

The luminous nebula, located about 2700 light-years from Earth, resembles a guitar with a bright pulsar. NASA telescopes have spotted a luminous nebula that crushes fast pulses of stellar material in space, like sound waves through a crowded concert stadium, Space.com compares.

Both space telescopes have decades of experience documenting space. Hubble was launched in 1990 and Chandra in 1999, scientists say. This gives astronomers the ability to track changes over time. The Guitar Nebula has been attracting the attention of researchers for the past few decades, Forbes writes.

According to a new statement from NASA, observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope show how the nebula and pulsar, formally known as PSR B2224+65, have changed over more than two decades.

Nebulae often contain the remnants of dying stars, originating from events such as supernovae. For example, a pulsar is an extremely small, dense, and rotating neutron star left over from a massive star that once collapsed and exploded in a supernova, experts say.

According to astronomers, the unique shape of the Guitar Nebula was formed over time due to bubbles blown by a constant wind of particles ejected by the pulsar as it moves through the interstellar medium.

Pulsars have strong magnetic fields along which particles spiral and emit X-rays that can be detected by Chandra, experts say.

The X-ray data from this object - shown in red in the new combined image - captured a filament of energetic matter and antimatter particles stretching about two light-years, or 19.3 trillion kilometers, from the pulsar located near the top of the Guitar Nebula, the space agency scientists explain.

"As the pulsar and the surrounding energetic particle nebula traveled through space, they encountered denser regions of gas. This allows the most energetic particles to escape the Guitar Nebula and fly to the right of the pulsar, creating a filament of X-rays," NASA said in a statement.

The researchers used the data obtained by Chandra and Hubble to study the formation of the nebula and better understand how pulsars interact with the space between stars.

OBOZ.UA previously wrote that the Hubble telescope recorded a "cosmic fossil" 3 million light years away.

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