neutron stars

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
Is there an angry baby neutron star in the middle of Supernova 1987A?
Phil Plait
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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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A Fast Radio Burster is seen to repeat every 16 days... deepening the mystery
Phil Plait
Feb 17, 2020
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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A dead star's spin is dragging the fabric of spacetime along with it
Phil Plait
Feb 4, 2020
Artwork of a pulsar emitting beams of energy as it orbits a white dwarf; the warping of spacetime is depicted as the change in an imaginary grid around them. The pulsar is not to scale; the white dwarf is hundreds of times larger. ESO/L. Calçada
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A new Fast Radio Burst discovery only deepens the mystery of these powerful blasts of energy
Phil Plait
Jan 15, 2020
The 8.2-meter Gemini North telescope took this image of the location of the fast radio burst FRB 180916.J0158+65 (green circle), which is in a star-forming region of a spiral galaxy about 500 million light years from Earth. Credit: Gemini Observatory
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Has Supernova 1987A's elusive neutron star finally been found?
Phil Plait
Nov 25, 2019
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Magnetars are the most powerful magnets in the Universe. Here's how they're made.
Phil Plait
Oct 14, 2019
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
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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
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
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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