Supersonic Pulsar Discovered by Nasa
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered a pulsar speeding through space.
- Dubbed PSR J0002+6216, the pulsar is hurtling through space at nearly four million kilometres an hour.
- ‘Pulsar’ is a celestial object that emits regular pulses of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiations at rates of up to one thousand pulses per second.
- Pulsars are super dense, rapidly spinning neutron stars left behind when a massive star explodes.
- Located about 6,500 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia, J0002 spins 8.7 times a second, producing a pulse of gamma rays with each rotation.
- Its rapid motion through interstellar gas results ....
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