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Most Energetic Light ever Observed from a Few Kilometers Large Star

The neutron star (red sphere) with its strong magnetic field (white lines) spins around itself nearly 30 times per second injecting energetic electrons in the space region around it. The green and blue shaded regions depict different particle acceleration zones from where the detected photons could originate. The green zone lies in the vicinity of the pulsar's magnetosphere, whereas the blue zone could be as far as 100,000 km away from the pulsar. Credit: Patricia Carcelén Marco

The neutron star (red sphere) with its strong magnetic field (white lines) spins around itself nearly 30 times per second injecting energetic electrons in the space region around it. The green and blue shaded regions depict different particle acceleration zones from where the detected photons could originate. The green zone lies in the vicinity of the pulsar’s magnetosphere, whereas the blue zone could be as far as 100,000 km away from the pulsar. Credit: Patricia Carcelén Marco

Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) observatory has found the most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected from the neutron star in the center of the supernova of 1054 A.D. ie Crab pulsar. It is the corpse left over when the star that created the Crab nebula exploded as a supernova...

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