Artist's Impression of Lumininescent Magnetosphere Surrounding a Pulsar (IMAGE)

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Artist's Impression of Lumininescent Magnetosphere Surrounding a Pulsar

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Fig. 1: An artist's impression of the lumininescent magnetosphere surrounding a pulsar. The pulsar itself is invisible in this view and sits at the very centre of the image. Above the pulsars magnetic poles, charged particles are accelerated outwards along the magnetic field lines and produce intense beamed radiation that can be observed by XMM-Newton.

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Image: Werner Becker / MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics

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