CosmoView Episode 39: Cosmic 'Spider' Found to Be Source of Powerful Gamma-Rays
Using the 4.1-meter SOAR Telescope in Chile, astronomers have discovered the first example of a binary system where a star in the process of becoming a white dwarf is orbiting a neutron star that has just finished turning into a rapidly spinning pulsar. The pair, originally detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, is a "missing link" in the evolution of such binary systems.
Credit:Images and Videos: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/CTIO/SOAR/J. P. Burgos/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith (USRA/GESTAR)/Caltech/IPAC
Acknowledgment: M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
Music: Stellardrone - Airglow
About the Video
| Id: | noirlab2202a |
| Release date: | Jan. 12, 2022, 10:15 a.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2202 |
| Duration: | 01 m 25 s |
| Frame rate: | 29.97 |
