File:NASA’s Fermi Mission Finds 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars (SVS14434 - pulsar art 1).gif

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This artist's rendering shows narrow beams of energy emerging from hot spots on the surface of a neutron star. When one of these beams sweeps past Earth, astronomers detect a pulse of light.

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English: This artist's rendering shows narrow beams of energy emerging from hot spots on the surface of a neutron star. When one of these beams sweeps past Earth, astronomers detect a pulse of light. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
Date 28 November 2023, 14:20:00 (upload date)
Source NASA’s Fermi Mission Finds 300 Gamma-Ray Pulsars
Author NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Mark SubbaRao, A. J. Christensen, Francis Reddy, Scott Wiessinger, David A. Smith, Elizabeth Hays
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Neutron Star; Space; Ast; Astrophysics; Fermi; 4K; Universe; Pulsar; Milky Way

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