The Crab Nebula was one of the first pulsars viewed during the human journey to the beginning of the universe. Photos NASA.
Browsing through a popular and well-read book on astronomy from the 1980s, one might get the idea astronomers have pierced the veil of secrecy surrounding stellar bodies we refer to as neutron stars. Astronomers and star gazers have boarded their time-machine-to-the-stars to journey to exotic parts of space and time to view these strange celestial bodies for decad...