Runaway pulsar has astronomers scratching their heads

[pErvinalia]

A newly discovered fast-moving pulsar streaking across the galaxy with enormous x-ray jets, defies the laws of physics, according to scientists.

A report in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, says the pulsar called IGR J1104-6103, also known as the Lighthouse nebula, is moving at more than eight million kilometres per hour and generating the longest jets in the galaxy.

Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, the left over core of a massive star after it explodes as a supernova.

But according to study co-author, Associate Professor Miroslav Filipovic of the University of Western Sydney, "we haven't seen anything like this before".

"It's moving at great speed, wobbling like a top as it spins, and creating these powerful high energy particle jets 37 light years long; ten times the distance between us and the nearest star."

The pulsar's wobbling motion causes the jets to twist into a distinct corkscrew shape.

"One of the biggest mysteries is that we only see these jets in x-rays, there's no radio signature, that's totally shocking to us," says Filipovic.

"Pulsars were first discovered because of their characteristic radio signals, so this is extremely difficult to explain through any theories we have at the moment."

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/ ... 948039.htm

[Clinton Huxley]

Boffins Baffled!

[Rum]

I find the promiscuous use of the word 'shocking' of great concern these days.

[Animavore]

A newly discovered fast-moving pulsar streaking across the galaxy with enormous x-ray jets, defies the laws of physics,

Obviously not.

[pErvinalia]

[cronus]

Dyson Sphere/Death Star...check where it's going. Could be interesting.

[mistermack]

A newly discovered fast-moving pulsar streaking across the galaxy with enormous x-ray jets, defies the laws of physics, according to scientists.

Obviously not.

You missed a bit.

You see that phrase used a lot, after similar bollocks, in climate ''science'' journalism.

Basically, it means you can write any shite you like.

[pErvinalia]

It's amazing how you even get out of bed each day. This whole science thing is a big scam!

[mistermack]

It's amazing how you even get out of bed each day. This whole science thing is a big scam! According to scientists.

You missed a bit.

[pErvinalia]

Umm, no. According to "people with no scientific knowledge who just know stuff because they are old and conservative".

[Thor]

A newly discovered fast-moving pulsar streaking across the galaxy with enormous x-ray jets, defies the laws of physics, according to scientists.

A report in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, says the pulsar called IGR J1104-6103, also known as the Lighthouse nebula, is moving at more than eight million kilometres per hour and generating the longest jets in the galaxy.

Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, the left over core of a massive star after it explodes as a supernova.

But according to study co-author, Associate Professor Miroslav Filipovic of the University of Western Sydney, "we haven't seen anything like this before".

"It's moving at great speed, wobbling like a top as it spins, and creating these powerful high energy particle jets 37 light years long; ten times the distance between us and the nearest star."

The pulsar's wobbling motion causes the jets to twist into a distinct corkscrew shape.

"One of the biggest mysteries is that we only see these jets in x-rays, there's no radio signature, that's totally shocking to us," says Filipovic.

"Pulsars were first discovered because of their characteristic radio signals, so this is extremely difficult to explain through any theories we have at the moment."

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/ ... 948039.htm

See? I told you Ragnarok was coming.

[mistermack]

I find the promiscuous use of the word 'shocking' of great concern these days.

Me too.

I was shocked when I read it.

[Rum]

As I am by the use of the word 'curious' instead of 'inquisitive'.

I blame Darwin.

[Svartalf]

I'm curious about why you are

[Animavore]

A newly discovered fast-moving pulsar streaking across the galaxy with enormous x-ray jets, defies the laws of physics, according to scientists.

Obviously not.

You missed a bit.

You see that phrase used a lot, after similar bollocks, in climate ''science'' journalism.

Basically, it means you can write any shite you like.

That's why I skip the journalism and go straight to reading books by climate scientists. They give a much more detailed picture of the state of the world due to man than journalists can ever cover in their short columns.