AY Sextantis (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Zoom into an artist's rendering of AY Sextantis, a binary star system whose pulsar switched from radio emissions to high-energy gamma rays in 2013. This transition likely means the pulsar's spin-up process is nearing its end.

Downloadable video: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011600/a011609/.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

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