Neutron Stars

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell found pulsars but watched her supervisor receive the Nobel. Back in 1967, a…

A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way…

An international team of astronomers has uncovered what they are calling the clearest evidence yet for dying white…

An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually…

In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered an unusual, regularly pulsing radio signal. This led to the identification of…

Astronomers have long known that neutron stars, the crushed cores left behind after massive stars explode, should be…

For years, physicists have wondered whether one unstable form of copper might act like a traffic jam inside…

A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a…

Most gamma-ray bursts—the brightest, most powerful explosions in the universe—are tracked back to the deaths of massive stars.…

ⓘ Mikkehouse – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing a neutron star. Recently, astronomers have discovered a collision between…

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most…

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In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell found pulsars but watched her supervisor receive the Nobel: The discovery that still raises questions about scientific credit |