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Tarantula Nebula NGC2070, Eduardo Rigoldi Fernandes
Tarantula Nebula NGC2070, Eduardo Rigoldi Fernandes

Tarantula Nebula NGC2070

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Tarantula Nebula NGC2070, Eduardo Rigoldi Fernandes
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Tarantula Nebula NGC2070

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Title: Pulsar PJR J0537-6910 e Pulsar J0540-6919

Description: PSR J0537-6910 is a pulsar that is 4,000 years old (not including the light travel time to Earth). It is located about 170,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation of Dorado, and is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It rotates at 62 hertz.

This Crab-like pulsar was first discovered in X-rays in 1984 and subsequently detected at radio wavelengths. Astronomers initially attributed the glow to collisions of subatomic particles accelerated in the shock waves produced by supernova explosions, and it took more than six years of observations by Fermi's Large Area Telescope to detect gamma-ray pulsations from J0540-6919.
In 2015, it was determined that J0540-6919 is responsible for about half of the gamma-ray flux from the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It was identified as a bright source of gamma radiation early in the Fermi mission.

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Tarantula Nebula NGC2070, Eduardo Rigoldi Fernandes