Thursday, March 19, 2009

Oldest isolated pulsar ever found by X-rays

The oldest isolated pulsar ever detected in X-rays has been found with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This very old and exotic object is surprisingly active.The pulsar is about 200 million years old.

1 comment:

  1. so what's a pulsar?
    sounding stupid...
    i came to know abt it only after reading your blog...

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