Four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars discovered
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars using the Murriyang ...
Mysterious radio pulses from space have been tracked down—and the source is not what astronomers expected
In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period transients.
Mysterious Radio Pulses Hint at a Strange Cosmic Object That Shouldn’t Exist
A cosmic enigma, ASKAP J1839-0756, a slow-spinning neutron star discovered using the ASKAP radio telescope, is challenging ...
Mysterious Space Signals Went Unexplained for Years – Astronomers Just Found the Star System Behind Them
A puzzling new type of radio signal – lasting seconds to minutes – has been linked to a binary star system featuring a white ...
Phys.org21d
News on neutron stars
In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly magnetized rapidly rotating, light-emitting neutron star) and a so-called ...
UMass Lowell4y
Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LoCSST)
it is denoted as a Be star. Be stars also show excess in Infrared (IR) emission. X-Ray Pulsars are magnetized Neutron Stars. In Binary systems, when the Neutron Star enters the accretion regime, it ...
PBS9y
Bell and Hewish discover pulsars
a neutron star. Bell and Hewish's discovery was the first known evidence for this, and the pulsing signal source became known as a pulsar. They changed the name of the signal from LGM to CP ...
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Exoplanets: Alien Worlds
In 1992 astronomers reported the first planet-size masses around a dead star, the pulsar PSR1257+12, which sits 2,000 light-years away. Three years later came news of the first known exoplanet ...