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'Emerging super Crab' might be the most powerful pulsar ever discovered - Space.com

'Emerging super Crab' might be the most powerful pulsar ever discovered - Space.com

'Emerging super Crab' might be the most powerful pulsar ever discovered - Space.com
Jun 23, 2022 1 min, 6 secs

The neutron star is in its infancy, between 14 and 80 years old.

Astronomers have discovered what might be the most powerful pulsar ever observed.

They suspect the newfound object, VT 1137-0337, is a pulsar wind nebula, a neutron star that accelerates nearby charged particles at close to the speed of light. .

The astronomers spotted the pulsar in a series of images from the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS), a project of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which is conducting three full-sky scans from the Very Large Array (VLA) near Socorro, New Mexico, over the course of seven years.

"This one stood out because its galaxy is experiencing a burst of star formation, and also because of the characteristics of its radio emission," Dong said in a statement. .

That radio emission shows similarities to a known pulsar wind nebula — the Crab Nebula in the constellation Taurus — but it's much more powerful.

There is a chance, however, that this energetic object is not a nebula wind pulsar at all.

Instead, it might be a magnetar, a neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field that might be the source of mysterious flashes called fast radio bursts.

— Astronomers spot the brightest intergalactic pulsar yet beyond the Milky Way.

— Record-breaking 'black-widow' pulsar found just 3,000 light-years from Earth .

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