The Crab Pulsar, a remnant of a supernova whose explosion was visible from Earth in 1054, emits a mysterious radio signal ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ... He was then able to determine that the Crab Pulsar's plasma matter causes diffraction in the electromagnetic pulses responsible for the ...

The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into a 12-mile-wide pulsar pinwheeling electromagnetic radiation across the cosmos. "The emission, which resembles a ...

The specific pulsar I’m discussing is known as the Crab Pulsar, located in the center of the Crab Nebula 6,000 light-years away from us." Related: A star exploded almost 1000 years ago and left ...

This is the Crab Pulsar, and within its radio pulses is a strange signal that has puzzled astronomers for years. Called the zebra pattern, it looks like a strange spacing of wavelength bands when ...

Nothing else in space has an emission quite like it ... plasma densities inside the pulsar's magnetosphere. The Crab Pulsar's zebra pattern. (Hankins & Eilek, ApJ, 2007) "If you have a screen ...

The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into a 12-mile-wide pulsar pinwheeling electromagnetic radiation across the cosmos. "The emission, which resembles a ...

The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into a 12-mile-wide pulsar pinwheeling electromagnetic radiation across the cosmos. “The emission, which resembles a ...

It was a supernova that would eventually lead to the formation of the Crab Nebula — a collage of interstellar gas and dust illuminated by the energy expelled during the death throes of a rapidly ...

The remnants of this explosion are visible today as the Crab Nebula. Within the nebula, astronomers have found a pulsar, the ultra-dense remains of a star that blew up.