Crab Nebula’s pulsar exhibits unique zebra-like radiation patterns. Plasma diffraction identified as the cause of the unusual emission. Study unlocks new methods for understanding young neutron stars.

A pulsar's radiation is getting refracted by plasma in the magnetosphere. Historical records from around the world describe a bright star appearing in the sky in the year 1054. Today, astronomers ...

The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant that contains a neutron star at its core, which has condensed into a pulsar. This pulsar, only 12 miles wide, spins rapidly and emits beams of electromagnetic ...

The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova that appeared in 1054. "Historical records, including Chinese accounts, describe an unusually bright star appearing in the sky," said the KU researcher.

But this wasn't just any supernova. It was a supernova that would eventually lead to the formation of the Crab Nebula — a collage of interstellar gas and dust illuminated by the energy expelled ...

THE Crab Nebula in Taurus ... by Lord Rosse, whose drawing of the nebula, published in 1844, probably suggested its name. It remained, however, for astronomical photography to show, first in ...

But this wasn't just any supernova. It was a supernova that would eventually lead to the formation of the Crab Nebula — a collage of interstellar gas and dust illuminated by the energy expelled during ...

A theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas, Mikhail Medvedev, has potentially solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery regarding the “zebra” pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses ...

LAWRENCE - A theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual "zebra" pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses ...

A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), optical data from Hubble (purple), and infrared data from Spitzer (pink). Pulsar PSR B1509-58| At the center ...