There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University astronomer Danny Milisavljevic, who led the team behind the JWST images.

An illustration shows a neutron star surrounded by green magnetic field lines in the fiery shell of supernova wreckage from its birth. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Out in the universe ...

"Most of the external layers of a massive star are removed during the supernova, but some material falls back, making the neutron star spin faster." ...