April 6, 2016

The Andromeda galaxy with the pulsar's signal in the inset (Image Andromeda: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/J. Fritz, U. Gent/XMM-Newton/EPIC/W. Pietsch, MPE; data: P. Esposito et al (2016))

An article published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” describes the discovery of the first pulsar in the Andromeda galaxy. A team led by Paolo Esposito of INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Milan, Italy, found this elusive object using the archives of observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope.