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On Feb. 22, 1971, a sounding rocket lifted off from Wallops Island, Virginia, with specialized sensors aimed at the Crab Nebula, a bright cosmic object 6,500 light-years away. In those days, before ...

Bizarre emission spectrum leads to speculation: Is this a third magnetic pole? SEATTLE – Astronomers and physicists using the Cornell-managed Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico have discovered radio ...

A theoretical astrophysicist may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual 'zebra' pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula. A theoretical ...

A century from now, the crew of SYFY's The Ark (streaming now on Peacock) extends the human passion for exploration to the stars. For the first time, a crewed spacecraft begins a journey to another ...

The Crab Nebula is one of the most famous celestial objects in the Milky Way galaxy. It's been imaged by every telescope of note, including the shiny new James Webb Space Telescope. NASA just released ...

Astronomers using the Tibet AS-gamma Experiment have discovered the highest-energy light ever measured from an astrophysical source. Photons streaming from the Crab Nebula were recently measured at ...

In the Crab Nebula, a rapidly rotating neutron star, or pulsar (white dot near the center), powers the dramatic activity seen by Chandra. The inner X-ray ring is thought to be a shock wave that marks ...

The Crab Nebula, low in the western sky this month, looks like a faint cloud in a telescope, but its vaporous appearance belies the amazing event that occurred here 963 years ago. In early July of ...

After looking at the Chandra Observatory’s latest pictures of the Crab Nebula, I’m thinking the X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula needs a cooler name. Click to viewMaybe something like PulsaX, with ...

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. Historical records from ...

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 ...