Crab Pulsar

PULSAR · the heart of the Crab Nebula

SPINS about 30 times per secondBORN in the supernova of 1054

The collapsed heart of the star whose explosion was seen in the year 1054. A ball of neutron matter barely 20 kilometers wide, heavier than the Sun, spinning thirty times every second and sweeping lighthouse beams of radiation across space. It powers the entire glowing Crab Nebula around it like a buried engine.

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