dead star

The brightest pulsar ever recorded has been discovered by astronomers using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. Pulsars are also called dead stars because they are what’s left after a supernova explosion, and belong to a class called neutron stars.

The brightest pulsar ever recorded has been discovered by astronomers using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. Pulsars are also called dead stars because they are what’s left after a supernova explosion, and belong to a class called neutron stars.