New data from NASA’s Swift spacecraft have led to the discovery of a rare subclass…
Browsing: Neutron Star
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive star that has exploded in a supernova, leaving behind an incredibly dense object composed almost entirely of neutrons. Though typically only about 20 kilometers across, neutron stars can contain more mass than the Sun, resulting in extreme gravity, magnetic fields, and rotational speeds. These cosmic remnants are laboratories for physics under conditions that can’t be replicated on Earth, offering insights into matter at nuclear densities, gravitational waves, and the behavior of space-time itself. Ongoing research continues to uncover their role in stellar evolution, cosmic collisions, and the origins of heavy elements.
Using the Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have discovered a triple star system with two white…
A newly published study details how the surface of a neutron star heats up, identifying…
A newly published study sheds new light on star death, finding that the brightest supernovae…
A team of scientists has discovered that a neutron star, dubbed IGR J18245-2452, has the…
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope, researchers have discovered that magnetar SGR 0418+5729 has one of…
Update September 15, 2020: New research indicates that neutron star collisions do not actually produce…
Astronomers using the CSIRO Parkes radio telescope have discovered radio bursts originating from billions of…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute used some of the most powerful supercomputers in the…
Observations from NASA’s Swift X-ray Telescope have revealed that the rotation of neutron star 1E…
In a new study, astronomers detail their observations of a neutron star system known as…
Observations of a newly discovered pulsar and its white dwarf companion, orbiting each other once…
NASA’s new mission, Neutron-star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), is set to reveal the physics that…
Using data from Chandra, ESA’s XMM-Newton, and NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, scientists made one…
A new video from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the Vela pulsar, a neutron star…
Discovered on July 14, 2011, by NASA’s Swift space telescope, Swift J1822.3–1606 is a “low-field…
Scientists at Caltech believe a computer simulation will help researchers interpret the information that detectors…
Using interferometric measurements to achieve extremely high angular resolutions, the RadioAstron mission will enable astronomers…