George Hobbs, CSIRO; Dick Manchester, CSIRO, and Simon Johnston, CSIRO A pulsar is a small, spinning star – a giant ball of neutrons, left behind after a…
Category: Pulsars
There’s a new record holder for brightest pulsar ever found — and astronomers are still trying to figure out how it can shine so brightly. It’s now…
Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit “skeleton” of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The…
13 new gamma-ray pulsars have been discovered by the citizen science project Einstein@Home. Einstein@Home borrows computer power from thousands of volunteers in order to analyze data sets…
SUTHERLAND, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa’s SALT telescope has helped detect the first white dwarf pulsar, the latest co-discovery that has astronomers eager to use the…