Crab Pulsar Emits Light at Higher Energies Than Expected- All Images

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News Release 11-215

Crab Pulsar Emits Light at Higher Energies Than Expected

Detection defies current pulsar models, leads to new theories

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Images showing the Crab Pulsar emitting light energy.

Crab Pulsar emits light energy above one hundred thousand million electron volts.

Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA) / NASA / ESA José Francisco Salgado, Adler Planetarium. Based on images by M SubbaRao, S Criswell, B Humensky, and JF Salgado.

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Cover of the October 7, 2011, issue of the journal Science.

The researchers' work is described in the October 7, 2011 issue of the journal Science.

Credit: Copyright AAAS 2011

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