Crab Pulsar

Simply amazing. No one would have ever imagined that we'd find such beautiful and complex structures in the universe.

We have only discovered a small part of it, yet I find myself amazed by its perfection.

thats not a pulsar... pulsars spin off two huge spines form the centre..

This is a video of the pulsar in the center of the Crab Nebula, with the audio being the actual radio signal. You can find more information about it on wikipedia. It's a rapidly spinning neutron star left behind after a super nova.

Imagine somthing as big as a large city, yet twice as heavy as the Sun, spinning at a steady rate of 30 rotations per second, and all that Inertia came from the supernova that created it. Plus two giant radiation death-rays coming from the poles of the spinning beast that fry anything that it touches. Reminds us of how vonerable and weak we are in the Universe.

it spins at 30 times per second
thats pretty fast

So cool.

wow

noo... a neutron star is a collapsed red giant and a pulsar is a spinning star emitting electromagnetic waves at either end. each noise from it shows half a rotation. they do give out light though

A pulsar is a spinning neutron star. The Crab nebula is a super nova remnant.

Oooh, intense one!