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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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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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A huge cloud of expanding supernova debris was found hidden in plain sight
Phil Plait
May 7, 2021
A composite of Hoinga in X-rays (magenta) and radio (blue). Extremely hot gas filling the remnant emits X-rays, while electrons whizzing around magnetic fields at the edge of the shell structure generate radio waves.
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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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Astronomers may be hearing the whisper of billions of black holes merging across the Universe
Phil Plait
Jan 13, 2021
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Chandra X-ray Observatory confirms newly-found baby magnetar doubles as a pulsar
Jeff Spry
Jan 11, 2021
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A supernova that left chaos in its wake
Phil Plait
Sep 4, 2020
The Vela supernova remnant is the shredded remains of a star that blew up 11,000 years ago, seen against a backdrop of gas clouds in the Milky Way. Credit: Robert Gendler and Roberto Colombari / DSS
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Pulsars, black holes, spacetime, and the search for the center of the solar system
Phil Plait
Jul 3, 2020
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
Jun 12, 2020
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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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