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.
In the aftermath, nothing remained, except the intensely hot, newly revealed core of the star and an expanding cloud of gaseous debris, which today we refer to as the Crab Nebula. As of now ...
The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its ... “But here, the neutron star’s magnetic field generates charged particles constituting a dense plasma, which varies with distance from the ...
The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into a 12-mile ... evenly spaced fringes if we just had a neutron star as a shield," the KU researcher said. "But here, the ...