Vela is nearly 1,000 light-years from Earth and is spewing astonishingly energetic gamma-rays into space.
Pulsars are one of the strangest celestial bodies in space. These cosmic lighthouses emit periodic bursts of radiation from their magnetic poles, and now a team of researchers claim they have detected the largest burst ever recorded from a pulsar. A global collaboration of scientists used the H.E.S.S. Observatory in Namibia to observe a pulsar emitting bursts of gamma-rays with energies as high as 20 tera-electronvolts, which is about 10 trillion times more energetic than visible light.
” A pulsar is a type of neutron star, which is one of the new lives a star can take on when it implodes, assuming it doesn’t collapse all the way into a black hole. A pulsar is incredibly dense and features a highly active magnetosphere, through which electrons accelerate only to be ejected in a beam from one of the star’s poles.
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