Baffling pulsar leaves astronomers in the dark

Artist’s impression of a pulsar in radio-bright mode. // Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Scientists have found that this object, whose radio emission is known to switch on and off periodically, exhibits the same behavior, but in reverse, when observed at X-ray wavelengths. By ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands — Published: January 25, 2013 New observations of a highly …

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