Cosmic Black Widow | Space Wallpaper

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 13:00 in Astronomy & Space

Spinning 390 times a second, the "black widow" pulsar PSR J1311−3430 periodically swings its radio (green) and gamma-ray (magenta) beams past Earth in this amazing space wallpaper.

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