image: This artist's impression of the night sky shows the record-breaking pulsar J1311-3430 above the spear in the constellation of Centaurus, the hunting centaur. The sky position of the pulsar–discovered solely through its pulsed gamma-ray emission–and its unusual companion have been highlighted by a star symbol. 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." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Stellarium/AEI/Knispel]