{"id":83819,"date":"2018-10-20T18:08:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T01:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/milky-ways-youngest-pulsar-found-19000-light-years-from-earth"},"modified":"2018-10-20T18:08:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T01:08:04","slug":"milky-ways-youngest-pulsar-found-19000-light-years-from-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/milky-ways-youngest-pulsar-found-19000-light-years-from-earth","title":{"rendered":"Milky Way\u2019s Youngest Pulsar Found 19,000 Light-Years From Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/milky-ways-youngest-pulsar-found-19000-light-years-from-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pulsar is roughly 500-years-old and was spotted with the help of NASA\u2019s Chandra X-Ray Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have managed to locate the youngest pulsar in the Milky Way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/chandra\/images\/kes-75-milky-ways-youngest-pulsar-exposes-secrets-of-stars-demise.html\">NASA<\/a> announced yesterday. Dubbed PSR J1846-0258, the pulsar was spotted inside one of our galaxy\u2019s supernova remnants \u2014 found 19,000 light-years away from our planet, in the Aquila constellation (The Eagle).<\/p>\n<p>This exciting discovery \u2014 first detailed in a study published earlier this year in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.3847\/1538-4357\/aab3d3\">The Astrophysical Journal<\/a><\/em> \u2014 could shed more light into supernova explosions and the new beginnings that arise from the death of a stellar giant.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/5123261\/milky-ways-youngest-pulsar-found-19000-light-years-from-earth\/\">https:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/5123261\/milky-ways-youngest-pulsar...rom-earth\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pulsar is roughly 500-years-old and was spotted with the help of NASA\u2019s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Astronomers have managed to locate the youngest pulsar in the Milky Way, NASA announced yesterday. Dubbed PSR J1846-0258, the pulsar was spotted inside one of our galaxy\u2019s supernova remnants \u2014 found 19,000 light-years away from our planet, in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}