{"id":88830,"date":"2019-03-20T15:02:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/alexandra-albani-added-a-new-photo"},"modified":"2019-03-20T15:02:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:02:26","slug":"alexandra-albani-added-a-new-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/alexandra-albani-added-a-new-photo","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra Albani added a new photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alexandra-albani-added-a-new-photo2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour \u2014 so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and the Moon in just 6 minutes. The discovery was made using NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation\u2019s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cThanks to its narrow dart-like tail and a fortuitous viewing angle, we can trace this pulsar straight back to its birthplace,\u201d said Frank Schinzel, a scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico. \u201cFurther study of this object will help us better understand how these explosions are able to \u2018kick\u2019 neutron stars to such high speed.\u201d Schinzel, together with his colleagues Matthew Kerr at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, and NRAO scientists Dale Frail, Urvashi Rau and Sanjay Bhatnagar presented the discovery at the High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Monterey, California. A paper describing the team\u2019s results has been submitted for publication in a future edition of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10216421413866089\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10216421413866089<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers found a pulsar hurtling through space at nearly 2.5 million miles an hour \u2014 so fast it could travel the distance between Earth and the Moon in just 6 minutes. The discovery was made using NASA\u2019s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation\u2019s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). \u201cThanks to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":441,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88830","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\/441"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}