The Crab Nebula has been one of astronomy’s most scrutinized objects for nearly a millennium, yet Hubble’s first fresh look ...

The Crab Nebula, one of the most studied remnants of a supernova explosion observed nearly a thousand years ago, has been ...

Almost a thousand years since its formation, the Crab Nebula sports complex shells of plasma, filled with tendrils, filaments, and knots. At its center sits a pulsar, a pulsating type of neutron star, ...

In the 11 months since British astronomers announced the discovery of pulsars, scientists have done a brilliant detective job of piecing together the nature of the strange, regularly beeping radio ...

Spotting unusual signals from outer space has been a staple of science fiction because of its potential to lead to amazing discoveries if not outright extraterrestrial contacts. New findings by a ...

The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant that contains a neutron star at its core, which has condensed into a pulsar. This pulsar, only 12 miles wide, spins rapidly and emits beams of electromagnetic ...

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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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 ...

After two decades of curiosity, researchers now know what causes the unique “zebra” pattern in the Crab Nebula’s signals. A spinning neutron star, or pulsar, at the nebula’s center creates the striped ...

A long-standing enigma surrounding the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula, may have been unraveled by a theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas. The study, ...

A University of Kansas (KU) theoretical astrophysicist has published a possible solution to the mysterious zebra pattern in the electromagnetic (EM) signal coming from the Crab Nebula, a pattern he ...