Fermi Satellite clocks 'cannonball' pulsar speeding through space
Tuesday, March 19, 2019 - 11:50
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour—so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and the Moon in just 6 minutes. The discovery was made using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA).