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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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PASADENA, Calif.– The search for gravitational waves has revealed new information about the core of one of the most famous objects in the sky: the Crab Pulsar in the Crab Nebula. An analysis by the ...

The Crab Nebula, also known as Messier 1, is one of the most well-known celestial objects, as this breathtaking supernova remnant has been imaged hundreds of times by NASA and all the way down to ...

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 thousand years ago, a brilliant beacon of light blazed in the sky, shining brightly enough to be seen even in daytime for almost a month. Native American and Chinese observers recorded the ...

This image of the Crab Nebula combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in magenta and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in dark purple. Credits: X-ray (IXPE: NASA), (Chandra: ...

The observations shed surprising new light on a well-studied cosmic object. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking space news, ...

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. Breaking space news, ...

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 ...