WASHINGTON — Energetic gamma rays are providing astronomers with a new way to hunt those hard-to-find whirling dervishes known as pulsars.
SPACE LIGHTHOUSE The rapidly rotating ultradense remnant of a massive star, a pulsar emits jets of radiation that sweep across space like a lighthouse beam, as shown in this illustration.
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