NASA's Fermi Telescope Finds Youngest Millisecond Pulsar

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered the youngest known millisecond gamma-ray pulsar in an old globular cluster of stars. A pulsar is a type of neutron star that emits electromagnetic energy at periodic intervals; a millisecond pulsar does soe every one- to ten-milliseconds, or one one-thousandth of a second.. A neutron star is the closest thing to a black hole that astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times more mass than Earth into a sphere no larger than a city. This matter is so compressed that even a teaspoonful weighs as much as Mount Everest. Recent discoveries of more gamma-ray pulsars have pushed their number past 100.

[Neueregel]

So, that's a 1000 spins per second. Amazing!!

[Tjips]

btw, millisecond pulsars come about when normal (aka canonical) pulsars are "spun up" by the process of accreting matter from another star. This means that millisecond pulsars are usually the older pulsars we observe, so finding a very young one is curious. Not that the video is very meaningful though. Just thought I'd share :D

[NJCProductions]

@iiVaOS There is a versions that has a narrator explaining this. It's in the NASAexplorer channel.

[Shabaal]

I like the way the space is so peaceful '-'

[RevelationOrangeII]

@VicariousReality7 Check out the video description: "This matter is so compressed that even a teaspoonful weighs as much as Mount Everest. "
With that much mass, it could withstand the centrifugal force from spinning 1000 times per second.

[EmoTeofanov]

1-millisecond Pulsar = 1000 revolutions per second = 60, 000 revolutions per minute!!! WOW, my head is spinning! :-D

[Neueregel]

@VicariousReality7 A 10 Km Neutron star sphere has a perimeter of 31.416 km. Spins every 1 millisecond, speed should be ~ 31416 m/s which is a little over of 1 tenth of light speed C. I wouldn't recommend it for a roundabout :)

[VicariousReality]

@Neueregel
Wait... what? I can't even fathom that. Wouldn't the centrifugal forces rip it a new one?

[uxeokbt]

This appears to be a newer version of the

Video on the NASAexplorer channel: watch?v=eZL-xynHopo

It would be better with an audio track.

[THETHPHANTOM]

@mazafuzle
he probably meant videos sound/voice explaining to us non genius people what we are seeing, what the little graphs are telling us

[slonamu]

@lepoete20
That is why I dislike the Star war outer space scenes. You can hear the hum of the engines in vacuum...
Still I would like some VO explaining what the hell (or haven) I am watching on this video:)

[mazafuzle]

@F2ID78gh there is no sound in space...

[highihigh]

Has anyone here had problems with Seti lately?