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Artwork depicting a magnetar superflare, an eruption of epic energy from the surface of a neutron star. Credit: NASA/GSFC
A magnetar is outbursting again right on schedule
Phil Plait
Aug 2, 2021
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The tallest mountain on a neutron star may be a fraction of a millimeter tall
Phil Plait
Jul 23, 2021
Artwork depicting the magnetic field surrounding a neutron star. Credit: Casey Reed / Penn State University
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Spacetime shakes: For the first time, astronomers see a black hole eating a neutron star
Phil Plait
Jun 29, 2021
Artwork depicting the merger of a neutron star (right) with a black hole (left). Credit: Carl Knox (OzGrav)
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Chinese radio telescope finds hundreds of new pulsars
Phil Plait
Jun 9, 2021
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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The first lone neutron star ever seen outside the Milky Way
Phil Plait
Jun 7, 2021
The supernova remnant 1E 0102.2-7219 seen by three telescopes: The red background (note the stars) from Hubble, the Very Large Telescope in green, and X-rays seen by Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue and purple.
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Now we know just how far away a magnetar is
Phil Plait
Jun 3, 2021
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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Neutron stars may be quite a bit bigger than previously thought
Phil Plait
Jun 1, 2021
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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Is there an angry baby neutron star in the middle of Supernova 1987A?
Phil Plait
Feb 24, 2021
Artwork showing a rapidly spinning magnetically powerful pulsar pumping energy into the gas around it, creating a pulsar wind nebula. Credit: Illustration: INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo/Salvatore Orlando
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Are neutron stars blasting out dark matter?
Phil Plait
Feb 1, 2021
Artwork depicting the magnetic field surrounding a neutron star. Credit: Casey Reed / Penn State University
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A brain-curdling magnetar superflare seen in a neighboring galaxy
Phil Plait
Jan 14, 2021
Artwork depicting a magnetar superflare, an eruption of epic energy from the surface of a neutron star. Credit: NASA/GSFC
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Axions, dark matter, and neutron stars: How to find the Universe's most mysterious matter
Phil Plait
Jan 4, 2021
Dark matter is thought to have formed a huge web in the early Universe, like this model from a computer simulation, allowing galaxies to form along the filaments. Credit: Springel et al. / The Millennium Simulation Project
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Scientists just engineered the perfect friction-less fluid and here's what it sounds like!
Jeff Spry
Dec 9, 2020
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Breakthrough! Mysterious radio signal traced to a galactic minimonster
Phil Plait
Nov 5, 2020
Artwork showing a flash of energy blasting off a magnetar along its magnetic field lines. Credit: NASA / GSFC / Chris Smith (USRA)
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The Universe is shaking: 39 new gravitational wave events added to the list
Phil Plait
Oct 30, 2020
Artwork depicting two black holes orbiting each other. Credit: LIGO/Caltech/MIT/Sonoma State (Aurore Simonnet)
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A big black hole just ate a much smaller black hole. Or a neutron star. Maybe.
Phil Plait
Jun 24, 2020
Artwork depicting the merger of a neutron star (right) with a black hole (left). Credit: Carl Knox (OzGrav)
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How big is a neutron star?
Phil Plait
Mar 11, 2020
Artwork depicting the magnetic field surrounding a neutron star. Credit: Casey Reed / Penn State University
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