NASA Chandra XRay has imaged spider pulsars in the Omega Centauri star cluster, located about 17,700 light-years from Earth. These observations help astronomers study why these spider pulsars prey on nearby stars.

Spider pulsars: A group of dead stars known to damage other small stars orbiting around them. A pulsar is the rotating dense core left after a star collapses in on itself to form a neutron star. These neutron stars spin rapidly and produce beams of radiation. This causes the outer layers of companion stars to be stripped away by energetic particle winds flowing from the pulsars.

Image description: Tiny white stars dot the darkness of space, many of them appearing to glow white or with a hot pink aura. Like other globular clusters, this cluster, called Omega Centauri, is more densely packed near the centre.

Does it look like a spider web to you?