Astronomers Make Most Precise Measurement of a Distant Neutron Star
By using the space between stars and galaxies as a giant lens, astronomers made the highest resolution measurement ever achieved of a distant neutron star….
By using the space between stars and galaxies as a giant lens, astronomers made the highest resolution measurement ever achieved of a distant neutron star….
New research shows the similarities that neutron stars have with black holes. For astrophysicists, neutron stars are extremely complex astronomical objects. Research conducted with the…
New data from NASA’s Swift spacecraft have led to the discovery of a rare subclass of neutron stars and will help astronomers decipher the physical…
Using the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered a triple star system with two white dwarfs and a neutron star. Astronomers using the National Science…
A newly published study details how the surface of a neutron star heats up, identifying previously unknown layers where nuclear reactions within the crust cause…
A newly published study sheds new light on star death, finding that the brightest supernovae are the result of a type of explosion within the…
A team of scientists has discovered that a neutron star, dubbed IGR J18245-2452, has the ability to transform from a radio pulsar into an X-ray…
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope, researchers have discovered that magnetar SGR 0418+5729 has one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. A team of…
Update September 15, 2020: New research indicates that neutron star collisions do not actually produce that much gold. A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center…
Astronomers using the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope have discovered radio bursts originating from billions of light years away, leaving the scientists to speculate about their…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute used some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world to generate elaborate computer simulations showing the violent birth…
Observations from NASA’s Swift X-ray Telescope have revealed that the rotation of neutron star 1E 2259+586 is slowing down, affecting this magnetar in exactly the…
In a new study, astronomers detail their observations of a neutron star system known as Circinus X-1. Using the Karoo Array Telescope, they view the…
Observations of a newly discovered pulsar and its white dwarf companion, orbiting each other once every two and a half hours, show that the binary’s…
NASA’s new mission, Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), is set to reveal the physics that make neutron stars the densest objects in nature and to…
Using data from Chandra, ESA’s XMM-Newton, and NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, scientists made one of the most reliable estimates of the relation between the…
A new video from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the Vela pulsar, a neutron star that is 12 miles in diameter, located about 1,000 light-years…
Discovered on July 14, 2011, by NASA’s Swift space telescope, Swift J1822.3–1606 is a “low-field magnetar” with short X-ray bursts. Is it a magnetar or…