Star packs big gamma-ray jolt, researchers discover
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 10:30
in Astronomy & Space
In the center of the Crab Nebula, the Crab Pulsar, a spinning neutron star left over when a supernova exploded, is pulsing out gamma rays with energies never seen before -- above one hundred thousand million electron volts, according to an international scientific team that includes researchers from the University of Delaware.