Astronomers from the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC, and elsewhere have employed NASA's Chandra X-ray ...

This image shows the Vela pulsar wind nebula. Light blue represents X-ray polarization data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. Pink and purple colors correspond to data from NASA’s ...

Composite image of the Galactic plane region and Potoroo, with the red layer showing the ASKAP total intensity image at 1368 MHz, and the green and blue layers representing WISE infrared images at 12 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pulsar wind nebula at the heart of the Crab Nebula . Astronomers have discovered a new rapidly spinning star that races ...

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are luminous bubbles of relativistic particles and magnetic fields driven by the spin-down energy of young neutron stars. Formed when a rapidly rotating pulsar ejects an ...

The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) has detected PeV (10 15 eV) gamma-ray emission from a pulsar wind nebula powered by PSR J1849-0001 in the constellation Aquila, marking the ...

In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes ...

The pulsar nebula has been named "Potoroo", after a small Australian marsupial. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have ...