Astronomers Have Identified The Most Powerful Pulsar Yet in a Distant Galaxy

A dense remnant of a large star is called a neon star. The collapsed stars were formed during a blast.

We still don't know how they evolve when they are young.

Thanks to large sky surveys, astronomy has been able to observe a small star that could be a decade old.

There is a neutron star in this picture. It is in a dwarf galaxy that is 400 million light-years away. A radio map of the sky is being created. Over the course of three separate runs, it will have mapped about 80% of the sky.

It captured an image of the neutron star again in 2020. It isn't just a brief radio burst.

The object is most likely a wind hole. The magnetic field and energy beams of the star cause gas in the nebula to ionize and emit radio light.

It wasn't seen in an earlier VLA sky survey called the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty- Centimeters. The star appeared between 1998 and the present day.

(Dong & Hallinan, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

There are VLA images of the location of VT. Sometime between these two dates, the object became visible to the VLA.

It might be less than twenty years old, but it might be a bit older. The surrounding nebula was dense enough to block radio light from reaching us.

The fog should have cleared within 60 to 80 years because of the rate at which the remnants expand. It is possible that VT is as young as 14.

The Crab Nebula is 10,000 times more powerful than VT's radio energy. It has a stronger magnetic field. It's so powerful that it could become a magnetar. Fast radio bursts are most likely caused by Magnetars.

It is possible that this is the first observation of a magnetar being born. Astronomers will find more births of these powerful objects as they conduct future sky surveys.

The research presented here was not done by Brian Koberlein, a science writer for the NRAO.

This article was published in the past. The original article is worth a read.