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XPoSAT: ISRO Black Hole Mission Observes Crab Pulsar. Know Interesting Facts About These 'Cosmic Lighthouses'
The Crab Pulsar, which is ultra-dense core of the star that exploded into a supernova, acts like a lighthouse, ejecting twin beams of radiation. It has a rotational period of 33.33 milliseconds.
XPoSAT (X-ray Polarimeter Satellite), the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO's) first mission to study black holes and neutron stars, has yielded interesting results after observing the Crab Pulsar. This is a rapidly spinning neutron star located at the heart of the Crab Nebula. The Crab Nebula, or Messier 1, is a six-light-year-wide remnant of a star's supernova explosion.
XPoSAT's Polarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX) observed the Crab Pulsar from January 15 to 18, 2024, and using
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