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#neutron-stars

1 reading card on “neutron-stars”, in chronological order. Part of the full archive.

  1. Composite image of the Crab Nebula — powered by a pulsar spinning 30 times per second at its core — combining X-ray, optical, and infrared data from Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer
    2026-05-12

    The First Pulsar

    A signal that should not have existed.

    In the summer of 1967, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student in Cambridge found a rhythm buried in the radio noise — sharp, cold, perfectly repeating every 1.337 seconds. For weeks, no one could explain it. They half-jokingly labelled it LGM-1: Little Green Men.