The starburst-like diagram is called a pulsar map, because it shows the location of our sun relative to known pulsars. Pulsars are the rapidly spinning remains of dying stars—the leftover cores ...

A pulsar's "spectrum" refers to a diagram that represents all the different light intensities and energies emitted by the object. (This is not exclusive to pulsars. Scientists can study lots of ...

James Webb Space Telescope sees a celestial Venn diagram around a dying star The new image depicts a pulsar wind nebula, produced by the dense remnant of a star that exploded in a supernova.