Artist's Conception of Crab Pulsar (image)

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Caption

This is an artist's conception of the pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula, with a Hubble Space Telescope photo of the nebula in the background. Researchers using the Veritas telescope array have discovered pulses of high-energy gamma rays coming from this object.

Credit

David A. Aguilar (CfA) / NASA / ESA

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