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are known for their regularity and stability. These fast-rotating neutron stars emit radio waves with such consistent pulses that astronomers can use them as a kind of cosmic clock.emitted gamma rays with tremendous energy. The gamma rays were the most energetic photons ever observed, with energies of more than 20 teraelectronvolts, and astronomers are struggling to understand how that's possible., which describes the burst of gamma rays emanating from the Vela Pulsar.
Neutron stars have tremendously strong magnetic fields, and when charged particles are caught in those fields they can be accelerated to a large fraction of the speed of light, which causes them to emit light.The magnetic fields are strongest at the magnetic poles of the, which is why they often emit powerful beams of radio light. When these beams, or light cones, sweep past our direction due to the neutron star's rotation, we see the regular pulses of light we call pulsars.
However, the team has noticed that the energetic light cone of the Vela Pulsar is unusually wide. This could be a clue to how it generates such high-energy particles.
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