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Asked by nelson to Evan on 20 Jun 2011.
Question: Where can you find pulsars?
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Evan Keane answered on 20 Jun 2011:
The pulsars we know about are in our Galaxy, not in other galaxies. I made a little animation of all the pulsar we know which shows you where they are in the Galaxy. The pulsars are in red, the spiral arms of the Galaxy are in blue and I marked the location of the Sun in green so you know where it is. Just click here to see it:
Does that help? Also, can you tell me what the two blobs of pulsars are that are in not in the “Galactic disc”? 😀
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Jen commented on :
Can I add that there is a version of the awesome Chromoscope which has known pulsars on it: http://www.chromoscope.net/dev/?kml=pulsars2011.kml 😀 (hi Evan!)
Evan commented on :
Hi Jen!
Yes, chromoscope is really cool – you guys should check it out!!