It lives on as the Vela pulsar, a type of ultra-dense core called a neutron star that has a powerful magnetic field that causes it to pulse with radio, optical, X-ray, and gamma wavelengths like a ...
The image of the Vela pulsar. The image has a resolution more than 40 times better than what could be achieved previously: The circle at the bottom left indicates the pulsar’s image spread for ...
Related: Pulsar surprises astronomers with record-breaking gamma-rays The image has to be large to capture all that detail across such a large swath of sky. As mentioned, the Vela supernova ...
Pulsars are the remnants of large stars that exploded in a supernova. Check out these 7 stunning pulsar images shared by NASA ...
Measurements of the pulsar tentatively identified with the supernova remnant Vela X support the rotational model. This pulsar is remarkable for the very high degree of linear polarization in its ...