<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/146543a4-8592-49a4-8b7d-b717214e7760/7F8206AE-4539-43BB-AF34-8F3A69C4F304/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/03/humble-little-pulsar-puts-on-a-big-show/" href="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/03/humble-little-pulsar-puts-on-a-big-show/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.universetoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/03/humble-little-pulsar-puts-on-a-big-show/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.universetoday.com/img/71A7604B-0FE1-42F4-BDFC-A7B2EC2178C7" alt="b1509" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/03/humble-little-pulsar-puts-on-a-big-show/">This X-ray nebula pictured above measures 150 light-years across. At its center is a very young and powerful <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/pulsars/">pulsar</A> known as PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/03/humble-little-pulsar-puts-on-a-big-show/">B1509 is only 12 miles (19 km) across! </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/03/humble-little-pulsar-puts-on-a-big-show/"><P>The small, dense pulsar is a rapidly spinning <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/stars/what-is-a-neutron-star/">neutron star</A> which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand. In this image, the lowest energy X-rays that Chandra detects are red, the medium range is green, and the most energetic ones are colored blue. Astronomers think B1509 is about 1,700 years old, and located about 17,000 light years away.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/03/humble-little-pulsar-puts-on-a-big-show/">B1509 is spinning completely around almost seven times a second</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/03/humble-little-pulsar-puts-on-a-big-show/">presumably because it has an intense magnetic field at its surface, estimated to be 15 trillion times stronger than the <A rel="external" title="" class="alinks_links" href="http://www.universetoday.com/guide-to-space/earth/">Earth</A>’s magnetic field.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.universetoday.com/2009/04/03/humble-little-pulsar-puts-on-a-big-show/">The image was released today as part of the ongoing “<A target="_blank" href="http://www.100hoursofastronomy.org/" title="100 Hours of Astronomy">100 Hours of Astronomy</A>” celebration</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7F8206AE-4539-43BB-AF34-8F3A69C4F304/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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