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A physics simulation of two protostars merging to form Tau Scorpii, cut right through their orbital plane. The coloring shows the intensity of the magnetic field, and the cross-hatching its direction. Credit: Ohlmann/Schneider/Röpke
Magnetars are the most powerful magnets in the Universe. Here's how they're made.
Phil Plait
Oct 14, 2019
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Record breaker: Astronomers find the most massive neutron star known. Probably the most massive one ever.
Phil Plait
Sep 17, 2019
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Pulses from a neutron star (smaller blue sphere) are delayed slightly by the gravity of a white dwarf (bigger sphere) as they pass by, allowing in principle the mass of the two stars to be determined. Credit: BSaxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF
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Astronomers trace a mysterious radio burst to its source… 3.6 billion light years away!
Phil Plait
Jul 1, 2019
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A rotating neutron star with a powerful magnetic field whips up subatomic particles around it. Artwork credit: NASA / Swift / Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State University
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The most compact accreting binary X-ray millisecond pulsar ever!
Phil Plait
Jun 20, 2019
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Artwork depicting a millisecond pulsar, sped up to phenomenal rotation rates by material it's eating from its companion star. Credit: NASA / GSFC SVS / Dana Berry
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A nearby binary neutron star collision may have seeded the early solar system with gold
Phil Plait
May 7, 2019
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Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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For the first time, astronomers see the birth of a neutron star binary system
Phil Plait
Apr 15, 2019
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Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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FOLLOW-UP: The volume of humanity… if all the space in our atoms is removed
Phil Plait
Oct 30, 2018
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A neutron star is incredibly small and dense, packing the mass of the Sun into a ball just a few kilometers across. This artwork depicts one compared to Manhattan. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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WHAM! BULLSEYE! Galactic collision creates a ring of black holes and neutron stars
Phil Plait
Sep 10, 2018
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The ring galaxy AM 0644-071, created when a small compact galaxy plowed through the middle of a spiral galaxy at least tens of millions of years ago. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
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Last year, two merging neutron stars rocked astronomy. Now it looks like they left behind a black hole.
Phil Plait
Jun 1, 2018
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Artwork showing the moment of the neutron star collision, with beams of energy shooting out and gravitational waves shaking ripples in the space-time continuum. Credit: NSF/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet
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Can life emerge after the fires of a supernova?
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Jan 8, 2018
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Artwork depicting the three planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257_12. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Star Stuff: Pulsars are cool but Jocelyn Bell Burnell is even cooler
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Nov 30, 2017
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BIG NEWS: For the first time, astronomers detect gravitational waves from two neutron stars crashing together!
Phil Plait
Oct 16, 2017
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rtwork depicting the moment of collision between two neutron stars. The resulting explosion is… quite large. Credit: Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital, Inc.
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Celestial fireworks pop off in a cosmic train wreck
Phil Plait
Jul 5, 2017
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