The Crab Pulsar is the end result of a star whose mass collapsed at the end of its life. It weighs as much as our sun, but spins 32 times per second. An instrument on the Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatoryfocused on the pulsar for a 300-second exposure to produce a color image. CHIMERA zoomed in on the pulsar and imaged it very fast, then imaged the rest of the scene slowly to create this image.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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