A pulsar on the move

Natural History | June 1, 2002| | Copyright

Astronomers resolve a long-standing mystery-only to reveal a new puzzle.

About once a century, somewhere in our galaxy, a star destroys itself in an explosion called a supernova. Within ten seconds, this titanic blast releases more energy than our Sun will produce in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. Then, during the next 100,000 or more years, a glowing, gaseous remnant of the explosion expands outward from the supernova site at hundreds of miles per second, scattering the heavy elements that seed the birth of new stars and planets. The core of the exploded star, compacted by its own ...

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