Pulsars

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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Is there an angry baby neutron star in the middle of Supernova 1987A?

Phil Plait

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: supermassive black holes

Astronomers may be hearing the whisper of billions of black holes merging across the Universe

Phil Plait

Jan 13, 2021

Merging black holes art

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Tag: supermassive black holes

Tag: Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Chandra X-ray Observatory confirms newly-found baby magnetar doubles as a pulsar

Jeff Spry

Jan 11, 2021

Tag: Chandra X-Ray Observatory

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: white dwarfs

Gargantuan objects in space fall just like Einstein predicted they would - even pulsars

Elizabeth Rayne

Jun 12, 2020

Tag: white dwarfs

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: neutron stars

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: neutron stars

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: neutron stars

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: neutron stars

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Fast radio bursts

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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Tag: magnetic fields

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: magnetic fields

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: neutron stars

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: neutron stars

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Fast radio bursts

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Fast radio bursts

Tag: Bad Astronomy

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Hubble Space Telescope

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Hubble Space Telescope

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Tag: Exoplanets

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

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Exoplanets

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