BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Vela Pulsar

PULSAR · the glitching lighthouse
Vela Pulsar
AI illustration of the real object
SPINS about 11 times per secondSPECIAL sudden hiccups in its spin

One of the brightest gamma ray objects in the sky, a neutron star spinning eleven times a second inside the wreckage of an ancient supernova. Now and then Vela glitches: its spin suddenly jumps faster for a moment, probably when the superfluid interior slips against the crust, a starquake on a city sized sun.

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