The most powerful pulsar has been found.
They think the object is a wind nebula, a type of star that causes charged particles to speed up.
The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS), a project of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, spotted the pulsar in a series of images. Transient objects such as supernovas can be searched for by researchers.
There is a weird nearby gamma-ray burst.
The Caltech graduate student and his adviser compared an observation from January of last year with one taken by the VLA in 1998 as part of the VLA's Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-cent
There were 20 objects in the newer image that weren't in the older one. There is an object in a dwarf galaxy 395 million light-years away from Earth.
The characteristics of its radio emission and burst of star formation made it stand out.
The Crab Nebula is a known pulsar wind nebula, but it is much more powerful. The Crab is 10,000 times more energetic than the object we have found. It's likely that it's an emerging'super Crab'.
VT is very young by standard. It is estimated to be between 14 and 80 years old, making it one of the youngest stars ever observed.
There is a chance that this is not a wind pulsar. It is possible that it is a magnetar, a star with a powerful magnetic field that may be the source of fast radio bursts.
This would be the first magnetar caught in the act of appearing, and it's very exciting.
The researchers will keep an eye on VT 1137. Since the beginning of the year, the object has appeared in pictures.
The American Astronomical Society met in Pasadena, California.
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