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SIZE DOESN’T ALWAYS MATTER in the cosmos. Sometimes, the tiniest of objects can put on powerful displays that span trillions of miles.
Astronomers recently imaged a gigantic beam of matter and antimatter shooting out of a small, spinning collapsed star. The beam stretches out about 40 trillion miles long, the longest ever observed from a pulsar star.
The astronomers detailed their recent observations in a study accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
“It's amazing that a pulsar that's only 10 miles across can create a structure so big that we can see it from thousands of light-years away,” Martijn de Vries, a researcher at Stanford University and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “With the same relative size, if the filament stretched from New York to Los Angeles the pulsar would be about 100 times smaller than the tiniest object visible to the naked eye.”
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Astronomers recently imaged a gigantic beam of matter and antimatter shooting out of a small, spinning collapsed star. The beam stretches out about 40 trillion miles long, the longest ever observed from a pulsar star.
The astronomers detailed their recent observations in a study accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
“It's amazing that a pulsar that's only 10 miles across can create a structure so big that we can see it from thousands of light-years away,” Martijn de Vries, a researcher at Stanford University and lead author of the study, said in a statement. “With the same relative size, if the filament stretched from New York to Los Angeles the pulsar would be about 100 times smaller than the tiniest object visible to the naked eye.”
Look: A small, powerful star just unleashed 40 trillion mile-long beam of antimatter
Astronomers imaged a record-breaking beam of matter and antimatter shooting out of a pulsar star.