Gamma Rays of the Dead Shine Like a Nightmare into the Eyes of the Living

When you bet into the heart of the Crab Nebula , you are staring at the gamma - radiation syndrome - soaked nightmare of history . You may have already known that this gorgeous nebula is the result of a supernova that Chinese and Arab astronomers register back in 1054 . But what you did n’t fuck is that the dead superstar became a pulsar that ’s still pouring ultrahot , oscillating da Gamma radiation out into the cosmos . research worker in the U.K. are enquire this gamma - spewing pulsar , and Clara Moskowitz has the story atSpace.com . mental image citation : NASA / ESA and Jeff Hester ( Arizona State University ) .

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