Record-Setting Gamma-Ray Pulsar Beyond Our Galaxy Bursts into View

Researchers have spotted the most luminous gamma-ray pulsar ever found — and the rapidly spinning, ultradense stellar core is also the first pulsar of its kind ever seen outside the Milky Way. A group analyzing data from the orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's Large Area Telescope discovered the extraordinary object in an area bursting with star activity: the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way. The new measurements show that puls