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These historic objects from the National Air and Space Museum's collection have been 3D scanned and 3D models produced in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution's Digitization Program Office.

Compact objects are compact stellar remnants, such as white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes and specific types of these objects (e.g., pulsars and boson stars), as well as their larger ...