The pulsar at the center of the famous Crab Nebula is a veritable bundle of energy. Astronomers observed the pulsar in the area of very high energy gamma radiation from 25 up to 400 ...

From within the nebula's colorful folds of gas, the Crab pulsar emits a continuous beam of radiation that sweeps around, similar to a lighthouse. When viewed through ground-based telescopes on ...

From within the nebula's colorful folds of gas, the Crab pulsar emits a continuous beam of radiation that sweeps around, similar to a lighthouse. When viewed through ground-based telescopes on ...

Powerhouse in the Crab Nebula. by Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Cosmic lighthouse: The Crab Pulsar emits gamma ray pulses measuring up to 400 gigaelectronvolts (GeV); that is ...

The Crab Nebula, located 6,500 light years away in the constellation Taurus, was formed in a spectacular supernova explosion in 1054. According to ancient sources, including Chinese texts that ...

The pulsar powers the surrounding famous Crab Nebula, located about 6000 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus. Both the pulsar and the nebula are remnants of a supernova which ...

HEIDELBERG, Germany — Astronomers consider the Crab Nebula one of the steadiest sources of high-energy radiation in the universe. Radiation from the supernova remnant is believed to be so ...

Gamma-ray flares from the Crab nebula. Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Heidelberg, Germany. Dec. 6, 2010. Fermi-Lat Collaboration. Gamma-ray flares from the Crab nebula. arXiv:1011 ...

The VERITAS team turned the telescope to the pulsar for 107 hours over a period of four years. To everyone’s surprise, they found a very high energy pulsed emission.

High-energy gamma-ray emissions that were thought to come from the pulsar at the heart of the Crab nebula could instead be produced by fast-moving winds that flow from the pulsar to the nebula.

At the heart of the famous Crab nebula holds an astronomical puzzle: an intense powerhouse of radiation that has defied all attempts by astronomers to explain it.