Spider Pulsars are Tearing Apart Stars in the Omega Cluster
Updated: 2023-11-30 23:24:58
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Omega Centauri is the brightest globular cluster in the night sky . It holds about 10 million stars and is the most massive globular cluster in the Milky Way . New research shows that spider pulsars in Omega Centauri are destroying their companions . Image Credit : By ESO https : www.eso.org public images eso0844a CC BY 4.0, https : commons.wikimedia.org w index.php curid=6283919 Posted on November 30, 2023 November 30, 2023 by Evan Gough Spider Pulsars are Tearing Apart Stars in the Omega Cluster Pulsars are extreme objects . They’re what’s left over when a massive star collapses on itself and explodes as a supernova . This creates a neutron star . Neutron stars spin , and
Skip to content Universe Today Space and astronomy news Menu Videos Newsletter Podcast Contact Us Support Us Log in Visualization of a fast-rotating pulsar . Credit : NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Posted on November 30, 2023 November 30, 2023 by Matt Williams Fermi has Found More than 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars In June 2008, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope began surveying the cosmos to study some of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe . Shortly after that, NASA renamed the observatory in the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in honor of Professor Enrico Fermi 1901-1954 a pioneer in high-energy physics . During its mission , Fermi has addressed questions regarding some of the most mysterious and energetic phenomena in the Universe like gamma-ray bursts