{"id":83854,"date":"2018-10-21T19:42:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T02:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/astronomers-spot-the-youngest-known-pulsar-ever-and-boy-is-it-pretty"},"modified":"2018-10-25T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:26:01","slug":"astronomers-spot-the-youngest-known-pulsar-ever-and-boy-is-it-pretty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/astronomers-spot-the-youngest-known-pulsar-ever-and-boy-is-it-pretty","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers spot the youngest known pulsar ever, and boy is it pretty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-spot-the-youngest-known-pulsar-ever-and-boy-is-it-pretty.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that\u2019s not the case with Kes 75. Located a mere 19,000 light years from Earth, Kes 75 is a ultra-dense chunk of a star that went supernova, and now scientists are calling it the youngest known pulsar in the Milky Way galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/chandra\/images\/kes-75-milky-ways-youngest-pulsar-exposes-secrets-of-stars-demise.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">a new post<\/a> on its website, NASA explains how the pulsar was detected and shows off a pretty stunning image of what it looks like from our vantage point.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/10\/21\/new-pulsar-neutron-star-nasa-chandra\/\">https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/10\/21\/new-pulsar-neutron-star-nasa-chandra\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the objects NASA and other scientific bodies choose to study in space are incredibly old, but that\u2019s not the case with Kes 75. Located a mere 19,000 light years from Earth, Kes 75 is a ultra-dense chunk of a star that went supernova, and now scientists are calling it the youngest known pulsar [\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-83854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83854","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=83854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84055,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83854\/revisions\/84055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}