Gamma Rays in Pulsars
This animation takes us into a spinning pulsar, with its strong magnetic field rotating along with it. Clouds of charged particles move along the field lines and their gamma-rays are beamed like a lighthouse beacon by the magnetic fields. As our line of sight moves into the beam, we see the pulsations once every rotation of the neutron star.
This animation shows gamma-rays from a pulsar
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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Animator
- Walt Feimer (HTSI)
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Scientists
- Alice Harding (NASA/GSFC)
- Steven Ritz (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Missions
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[Fermi: LAT]
ID: 216Fermi Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) Large Area Telescope (LAT)
This dataset can be found at: http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov
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