Mysterious Galactic Signals: Magnetar Observations Shed New Light on Fast Radio Bursts
An international team reports on a radio pulsar phase of a Galactic magnetar that emitted a fast radio burst in 2020; observations suggest unique origins…
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Spider Pulsars’ Missing Link Found – Astronomers Validate Longstanding Theory
Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with their international partners, used the Five-hundred-meter Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to identify…
Pulsar Mysteries Unveiled: Unprecedented “Dwarf” Pulses Discovered With FAST Telescope
Using the FAST telescope, researchers discovered unique “dwarf pulses” from pulsar PSR B2111+46, potentially unveiling unknown aspects of pulsar radiation and plasma conditions. Using the…
New White Dwarf Pulsar Discovery: “Stellar Fossils” Unveil Cosmic Secrets
A research group from the University of Warwick has discovered a rare white dwarf pulsar for only the second time, providing significant insights into stellar…
Why Have Pulsars “Gone Missing” – A New Finding Offers Some Answers
New finding offers clues to “missing” pulsars. MSPs, or millisecond pulsars, are evolved neutron stars with brief spin periods that underwent extensive mass transfer during…
Mysterious Interstellar Plasma Revealed by Twinkling Pulsars
Occasionally pulsars—rapidly-spinning remnants of stars that flash like a lighthouse—show extreme variations in brightness. Astrophysicists predict that these short bursts of brightness occur because dense…
Heaviest Neutron Star Ever Discovered Is a “Black Widow” Devouring Its Mate
Observations of faint, planet-size star help weigh its millisecond pulsar companion. A dense, collapsed star has shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its…
Undead Planets: The Bizarre Conditions of the First Exoplanet Detection
30 years ago, the first-ever exoplanets were discovered around a rapidly rotating star, called a pulsar. Now, astronomers have revealed that these planets may be…
Pulsar Discovered Blazing Through the Milky Way at Over a Million Mile per Hour
A young pulsar has been discovered blazing through the Milky Way at a speed of over a million miles per hour. This stellar speedster, witnessed…
Astronomers Discover Evidence for Most Powerful Pulsar in Distant Galaxy
Astronomers analyzing data from the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) have discovered one of the youngest known neutron stars — the superdense remnant of a massive…
Over a Million Miles per Hour: NASA’s Chandra Catches Pulsar in X-Ray Speed Trap
A pulsar is racing through the debris of an exploded star at a speed of over a million miles per hour. To measure this, researchers…
Astronomers Discover a Mysterious “Black Widow” Binary – With the Shortest Orbit Yet
When a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses, it may leave behind a neutron star. (Unless the leftover mass is too great, in…
MIT Astronomers Discover Mysterious “Black Widow” Binary System
The system, which may have originated near the center of the Milky Way, is orbited by a third stellar companion. The flashing of a nearby…
Strange Galactic Signal Coming From the Center of the Galaxy Has Potential New Explanation
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have found an alternative explanation for a mysterious gamma-ray signal coming from the center of the galaxy, which…
Why Double Neutron Star Systems – Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsars – Are So Rare
The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey Double neutron star (DNS) systems in tight orbits are fantastic laboratories to test Einstein’s general theory of relativity….
The Hunt for the Gravitational Wave Background: NASA’s FERMI Searches for Ripples in Spacetime
NASA’s FERMI Satellite Hunts for Extremely Long-wavelength Gravitational-Wave Signals Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational…
Tiny Star Unleashes Monstrous Beam of Matter and Anti-Matter
A city-sized collapsed star has generated a beam of matter and antimatter that stretches for trillions of miles. Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed…
Tiny Star Unleashes Gargantuan Beam of Matter and Anti-Matter That Stretches for 40 Trillion Miles
Astronomers have imaged a beam of matter and antimatter that is 40 trillion miles long with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The record-breaking beam is powered…
