Pulsar - "Only in gamma rays, you say"

First gamma-ray-only pulsar observation opens new window on stellar evolution


Menlo Park, Calif.--About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old
stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. This object,
known as a pulsar, is the first one known to "blink" only in gamma
rays, and was discovered by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard
NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, a collaboration with the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) and international partners.

So starts the press release.  Note were it comes from - i was just in Menlo Park on the weekend (at a vets and a baby shower!) which is right by Palo Aalto which hosts the beautiful Stanford University. Menlo Park is a small clean and cute town with restored train station and shops in the "spanish colonial with a touch of victorian" style (well, the shower was in a "high tea" shop). 

More about the pulsar at:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/gr_pulsar.html