Latest Vela Pulsar Stories
New video footage of the Vela pulsar, a neutron star located approximately 1,000 light-years from Earth, suggests that the pulsar could be slowly wobbling as it spins, NASA officials said on Monday.
Astronomers have discovered a very slowly rotating X-ray pulsar still embedded in the remnant of the supernova that created it.
A spectacular new image shows how complex a star's afterlife can be. By studying the details of this image made from a long observation by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers can better understand how some stars die and disperse elements like oxygen into the next generation of stars and planets.
- totally perplexed and mixed up.