Gamma-Ray Pulsars/Milky Way (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

Gamma-Ray Pulsars/Milky Way

Caption

The positions of the cataloged pulsars shown in a top-down view of the Milky Way. The red and orange symbols indicate millisecond pulsars, while the green and blue symbols indicate young, unrecycled pulsars. Some radio-quiet pulsars (blue symbols) do not have well measured distances, so their positions only indicate the direction towards these pulsars.

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Photo By: Reid; M. J; et al.; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

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