This is the main reason why a NASA camera melted during the SpaceX launch

Not all space launches go well. Some often result in rockets crashing down, while others result in camera melt down. During a SpaceX rocket launch on May 22, a high-end Canon camera suffered disastrously and now Bill Ingalls, the NASA photographer on duty that day has revealed what caused the camera to disfigure, Mashable reported.

Ingalls explained that despite his Canon DSLR being set up furthest from the launch pad, it melted because of the grass around it caught fire from the launch blast. Interestingly, the memory card was found intact inside of the camera carcass.

Recently, NASA scientists discovered a special kind of neutron star for the first time outside of the Milky Way galaxy, and released a stunning image of the stellar body located 200,000 light years from Earth.

Neutron stars are the ultra dense cores of massive stars that collapse and undergo a supernova explosion.

The newly identified neutron star, discovered using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, is a rare variety that has both a low magnetic field and no stellar companion. The neutron star is located within the remains of a supernova - known as 1E 0102.2-7219 (E0102) - in the Small Magellanic Cloud, located 200,000 light years from Earth.

A new composite image of E0102 allows astronomers to learn new details about this object that was discovered more than three decades ago. Oxygen-rich supernova remnants like E0102 are important for understanding how massive stars fuse lighter elements into heavier ones before they explode.

With inputs from ANI

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