Video of the pulsar at the heart of the Crab Nebula

Video of the pulsar at the heart of the Crab Nebula. Composite from images taken over the course of a year. Note the lightyears long puff of ‘smoke’.1.6 x mass of our sun, rotating 30x / sec, moving at 7million kps at the equator!

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