A composite image of X-ray, radio, and optical light data from the "cosmic hand" nebula leaves open questions about the interaction that created it. Credit: NASA / CXC / S. Zhang et al / ATNF / CSIRO ...

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 ...

The word pulsar is short for pulsating radio star, and it’s a phenomenon that occurs in space when a neutron star shows off its magnetized qualities by emitting radioactive gamma light rays. The ...

Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that's not the case with Kes 75. Located a mere 19,000 light years from Earth, Kes 75 is a ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — NASA has released images of a pulsar wind nebula, referred to as MSH 15-52, which closely resembles a ghostly cosmic hand. Using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, NASA ...

A NASA space telescope studying X-ray emissions from a nearby galaxy has discovered the brightest pulsar ever detected, the fast-spinning remnant of a collapsed star that shines so intensely it was ...

Half a century ago, astronomers observed their first pulsar: a dead, distant, ludicrously dense star that emitted pulses of radiation with remarkable regularity. So consistent was the object's signal ...

Objects out in the universe can travel at incredible speeds that are hard for humans to comprehend. NASA's Fermi satellite has clocked a pulsar moving through space at an insane velocity. The ...

Astrophysicists are redrawing the textbook image of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks to NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray telescope ...