Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
More space news and info at: coconutsciencelab.com - astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour -- so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and the Moon in just 6 minutes.
Pulsars are super dense, rapidly spinning neutron stars left behind when a massive star explodes. This one, dubbed PSR J0002+6216 (J0002 for short), sports a radio-emitting tail pointing directly toward the expanding debris from a recent supernova explosion.
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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park): Lead Science Writer
Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Lead Producer
Jeanette Kazmierczak (University of Maryland College Park): Science Writer
More space news and info at: coconutsciencelab.com - astronomers using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour -- so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and the Moon in just 6 minutes.
Pulsars are super dense, rapidly spinning neutron stars left behind when a massive star explodes. This one, dubbed PSR J0002+6216 (J0002 for short), sports a radio-emitting tail pointing directly toward the expanding debris from a recent supernova explosion.
Please rate and comment, thanks!
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park): Lead Science Writer
Scott Wiessinger (USRA): Lead Producer
Jeanette Kazmierczak (University of Maryland College Park): Science Writer
