For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct striped pattern seen in radio waves emanating ...

A mysterious striped signal from the Crab Pulsar may finally be explained by a delicate balance between plasma effects and ...

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From within a glowing web expanding outward from an epic explosion, a dead star is flashing pulses of radio light at Earth. This is the Crab Pulsar, and within its radio pulses is a strange signal ...

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PASADENA, Calif.– The search for gravitational waves has revealed new information about the core of one of the most famous objects in the sky: the Crab Pulsar in the Crab Nebula. An analysis by the ...

A theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual "zebra" pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the ...

The Crab Nebula, also known as Messier 1, is one of the most well-known celestial objects, as this breathtaking supernova remnant has been imaged hundreds of times by NASA and all the way down to ...

The Crab Nebula has been one of astronomy’s most scrutinized objects for nearly a millennium, yet Hubble’s first fresh look in almost a quarter century shows it is still capable of surprise. The new ...

Medvedev modeled wave diffraction off a circular reflecting region with radially varying index of refraction outside of it to better understand the Crab Nebula’s zebra pattern. LAWRENCE — A ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has captured never-before-seen details of the Crab Nebula. The new image reveals ghostly tendrils and the dense core of an exploded star in exquisite detail. The Crab ...