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Release No.: 2011-28For Release: Thursday, October 06, 2011
Crab Pulsar Dazzles Astronomers with its Gamma-Ray Beams
Crab Pulsar Dazzles Astronomers with its Gamma-Ray Beams
An artist's conception of the pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula, with a Hubble Space Telescope photo of the nebula in the background. Researchers using the Veritas telescope array have discovered pulses of high-energy gamma rays coming from this object.
Credit: David A. Aguilar / NASA / ESA
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Credit: David A. Aguilar / NASA / ESA
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This artist's conception shows the Crab Nebula pulsar, which astronomers discovered to be sending out pulses of gamma rays with energies exceeding 100 billion electron-volts (100 GeV). A pulsar is a spinning neutron star - the collapsed core of a massive star that exploded as a supernova.
Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
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Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
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An artist’s rendering of the VERITAS array detecting gamma-ray pulses from the Crab Nebula.
Credit: José Francisco Salgado based on images by M. SubbaRao, S. Criswell, B. Humensky, and J.F. Salgado
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Credit: José Francisco Salgado based on images by M. SubbaRao, S. Criswell, B. Humensky, and J.F. Salgado
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