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A Shocking Space Movie

Posted by michael on Friday September 20, 2002 @04:41AM from the cosmic-war dept.

MagnetarJones writes "Multiple observations made over several months with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to nearly the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manhattan. "Through this movie, the Crab Nebula has come to life," says Jeff Hester of Arizona State University."

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Weird units: What a small star by hackwrench · 2002-09-20 04:53 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Manhattans? Is that before or after the world trade center was destroyed? What is the size of the star in cubic kilometers? For that matter, what's its mass?