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Pulsars, black holes, spacetime, and the search for the center of the solar system
Phil Plait
Artwork depicting gravitational waves distorting space, changing the way neutron star pulses arrive at Earth. Credit: David Champion
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Gargantuan objects in space fall just like Einstein predicted they would - even pulsars
Elizabeth Rayne
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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 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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A galactic Christmas tree lit up by magnetic fields and interloping stars
Phil Plait
Dec 25, 2019
A 'Christmas tree' in the galactic center: A series of parallel magnetic field lines lit up by electrons moving along them. The source of the electrons, a massive star or pulsar, is near the tip of the tree (the one near the bottom is a coincidental super
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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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The most compact accreting binary X-ray millisecond pulsar ever!
Phil Plait
Jun 20, 2019
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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Downtown Sagittarius is a busy place
Phil Plait
May 27, 2019
A Hubble image of a region of the sky in Sagittarius reveals thousands of stars of all different colors. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
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Can life emerge after the fires of a supernova?
Phil Plait
Jan 8, 2018
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
Summer Ash
Nov 30, 2017
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How scientists lost a 5,000-year-old star for three years
Matthew Jackson
Dec 17, 2012
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