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)