Versatile Instrument to Scout for Kuiper Belt Objects

Pulsar Caranguejo – PIA 20347
Observatório PALOMAR – Telescópio HALE – Instrumento CHIMERA
(Instituto de Tecnologia da Califórnia)

“This pulsar is the end result of a star whose mass collapsed at the end of its life.

It weighs as much as our sun, but spins 32 times per second.”

(texto/inglês e imagem: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov)