Fast-Spinning Neutron Star Discovered (3 of 9) (IMAGE)

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Fast-Spinning Neutron Star Discovered (3 of 9)

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This is a map of the gamma-ray sky as seen by the Large Area Telescope onboard the NASA Fermi satellite. Gamma-ray photons were collected over the course of four years for this whole-sky map. The color coding displays the intensity of the detected gamma radiation (small intensity = blue, medium intensity = red, high intensity = yellow). The gamma radiation from the plane of the Milky Way can be seen as horizontal stripe. The newly discovered radio pulsar J1311-3430, a strong gamma-ray source, is marked by a green circle. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 25, 2012, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Holger Pletsch at Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) in Hannover, Germany, and colleagues was titled, “Binary Millisecond Pulsar Discovery via Gamma-Ray Pulsations."

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[Image courtesy of NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration/AEI]

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