Record-Setting Gamma-Ray Pulsar Beyond Our Galaxy Bursts into View

Researchers have spotted the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar ever found — and the rapidly spinning, ultradense stellar core is also the first pulsar of its kind ever seen outside the Milky Way.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Record-Setting Gamma-Ray Pulsar Beyond Our Galaxy Bursts into View

Researchers have spotted the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar ever found — and the rapidly spinning, ultradense stellar core is also the first pulsar of its kind ever seen outside the Milky Way.

A group analyzing data from the orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope’s Large Area Telescope discovered the extraordinary object in an area bursting with star activity: the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. Scientists have previously seen this specific pulsar emitting other wavelengths of light (such as X-rays), but this is the first detection of a pulsar outside the Milky Way blasting high-powered gamma-rays.

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Nice. I was able to show recently that almost all of Fermi’s unidentified objects have the same properties as gamma ray pulsars within the Milky Way. Nice to see that at least this one is outside the Milky Way, even though it is only as far away as the LMC.