A powerful stream of energy from an exploding star hit the Earth. writes about this MailOnline.
According to the publication, intense gamma rays were detected using a telescope system in Namibia. They come from the Vela Pulsar, located in the Vela constellation in the southern sky. It is stated that radiation can burn exposed people and turn them into ashes.
Vela Pulsar is the brightest persistent source of cosmic gamma rays in the range above 1 GeV. It produces beams of different energies by making 11 revolutions per second.
Pulsars are the remnants of massive stars that exploded as supernovae. After the flare, they leave behind a tiny star, about 20 km in diameter, that rotates extremely fast and has an impressive magnetic field. Pulsars consist almost entirely of neutrons and are extremely dense: a teaspoon of matter weighs over 5 billion tons.
Astronomy and Astrophysics (A&A) magazine in August WroteAstronomers from New York University in Abu Dhabi have revealed the unusual behavior of pulsar J1023, located 4.5 thousand light-years from Earth. They found that the space object draws matter from a nearby star and ejects that matter into space.
Earlier astronomers I found a star A new species with a record-strong magnetic field.