Saturday, December 27, 2008

Crab Nebula seen with its mysterious pulsar

A Pulsar is a spinning shell of star that remains once a star’s core collapses and rebounds to shine a supernova. After it’s titanic explosion a small spinning star with magnetic fields is created. Here is the best evidence and view of a pulsar in the famous Crab Nebula. The Pulsar is in the middle. Chinese astronomers witnessed the supernova explosion in 1054 AD
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2008/crab/