Star bright is an understatement. A dead star known as the Vela pulsar redefined hit Earth with a blast of energy so powerful that scientists are at a loss to explain it, according to a new study ...

This image shows a map of gamma rays detected from the Vela pulsar. Although this experiment is doing some breakthrough astronomy, its setup sounds like something out of the 19th century.

This makes Vela unique among other pulsars, as a separate study in October of 2023 confirmed it’s the highest-energy pulsar known to science. Led by Kobe University astrophysicist Shigeki Aoki ...

You might've even heard its name uttered before: The Vela Pulsar. And on Thursday (Oct. 5), scientists announced that data from the High Energy Stereoscopic System (HESS) observatory in Namibia ...

The researchers identified 78 super-energetic particles of light that they traced to a pulsar about 1,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Vela. That light, the team determined ...

Now, a new study published in Nature Astronomy takes a close look at observations of a distant neutron star called the Vela Pulsar and offers an explanation for its own peculiar behavior while ...

The surprising detection of light 200 times more powerful than previous observations from the nearby pulsar Vela indicates hidden physics around dead stars. When you purchase through links on our ...

That one is called the Vela pulsar. Arache Djannati-Ataï at Paris Cité University in France and his colleagues found that the Vela pulsar is even more unusual than we thought. They observed it ...

The emissions are coming from a pulsar known as Vela nearly 1,000 light-years from Earth. This massive object spins 11 times per second, flashing at us like a rapidly blinking light. The ...