Astronomers have spotted the highest-energy outburst of light from a pulsar ever seen. The discovery could indicate new physics around these incredibly dense, rapidly spinning dead stars. The team, ...

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has produced the first-ever X-ray polarization data of the Vela pulsar wind nebula, which lies about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...

This discovery has been accessible by the operation of the new 28-meter diameter telescope. Construction of the telescope structure has been led by the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK).

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This billowing mass of dust filaments and gas tendrils stretching across 100 light-years of space like delicate lace is the Vela supernova remnant — scattered ashes of a star that exploded about ...

The pulsar Vela rests a thousand light years away from Earth in a tattered cloud of gas and dust that used to be the guts of a massive star. These magnetic field of this dense, burned-out corpse of ...

In context: Pulsars are rotating neutron stars formed from the remnants of supergiant stars that have undergone supernova explosions. These celestial objects emit beams of highly energetic ...

Earth has been hit by blast of energy from a dead star so powerful that scientists can't fully explain it. The intense gamma rays – detected using a vast system of telescopes in Namibia – would sizzle ...

Star bright is an understatement. A dead star known as the Vela pulsar redefined hit Earth with a blast of energy so powerful that scientists are at a loss to explain it, according to a new study ...

The Universe is a weird place. I mean, seriously, how else would you describe something like the Vela pulsar? It used to be a massive star, far larger than the Sun. Then it exploded, blasting away an ...

This spectacularly strange region is none other than the Vela Pulsar, which is, of course, associated with the equally spectacular Vela supernova remnant (this large, spherical region lurks about 800 ...

The High Energy Stereoscopic System telescope in Namibia has detected gamma rays of only 30 Giga electron volts (GeV) from the Vela pulsar. This is the first pulsar to be detected by HESS and the ...