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A dead star's spin is dragging the fabric of spacetime along with it
Phil Plait
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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