Supersonic Pulsar Discovered
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has discovered a pulsar speeding through space.
- Dubbed PSR J0002+6216, the pulsar pulsar, discovered by the NASA, is hurtling through space at nearly four million kilometres an hour.
Pulsar
- Pulsar is a celestial object that emits regular pulses of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation 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.
- The speed of the pulsar in the space is so fast that it could travel the distance between the Earth and the Moon in just six ....
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