Waspie_Dwarf Posted January 19, 2017 #1 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Geminga and B0355+54: Chandra Images Show That Geometry Solves a Pulsar Puzzle Quote NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has taken deep exposures of two nearby energetic pulsars flying through the Milky Way galaxy. The shape of their X-ray emission suggests there is a geometrical explanation for puzzling differences in behavior shown by some pulsars. Pulsars - rapidly rotating, highly magnetized, neutron stars born in supernova explosions triggered by the collapse of massive stars- were discovered 50 years ago via their pulsed, highly regular, radio emission. Pulsars produce a lighthouse-like beam of radiation that astronomers detect as pulses as the pulsar's rotation sweeps the beam across the sky. Read More: Chandra X-ray Center 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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