Pulsars Defy Conventional Wisdom Of Astrophysics
01/30/13 12:44PM By Jane Lindholm Download MP3
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This image is a snapshot from a movie that shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra in 2001.
University of Vermont astrophysicist Joanna Rankin talked with Vermont Edition about the research she contributed to that challenges essential theories about how pulsars work.