Astonishingly Bright “Super Crab” Pulsar Is So Young It's Practically A Teenager - IFLScience
6/15/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Stephen Luntz
by Stephen Luntz
A neutron star invisible in a 1998 sky survey but seen repeatedly since is probably a younger version of the one at the heart of the Crab Neubula, but 10,000 times as bright.
In 2018 the first Very Large Array sky survey detected an object, VT 1137-0337, that appears to be a supernova remnant in a galaxy 395 million light-years away. Further investigation has revealed two… [+3274 chars]
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