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From within a glowing web expanding outward from an epic explosion, a dead star is flashing pulses of radio light at Earth. This is the Crab Pulsar, and within its radio pulses is a strange signal ...

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Medvedev modeled wave diffraction off a circular reflecting region with radially varying index of refraction outside of it to better understand the Crab Nebula’s zebra pattern. LAWRENCE — A ...

A pulsar's radiation is getting refracted by plasma in the magnetosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

PASADENA, Calif.– The search for gravitational waves has revealed new information about the core of one of the most famous objects in the sky: the Crab Pulsar in the Crab Nebula. An analysis by the ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has captured never-before-seen details of the Crab Nebula. The new image reveals ghostly tendrils and the dense core of an exploded star in exquisite detail. The Crab ...

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This image of the Crab Nebula combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in magenta and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in dark purple. Credits: X-ray (IXPE: NASA), (Chandra: ...

The Crab Nebula, also known as Messier 1, is one of the most well-known celestial objects, as this breathtaking supernova remnant has been imaged hundreds of times by NASA and all the way down to ...

Astronomers think they may have found the most powerful pulsar to date in a distant galaxy. The fast-spinning neutron star — the dense remains of a once massive star — is just beginning to emerge from ...

The neutron star is in its infancy, between 14 and 80 years old. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, the latest ...