Pulsars

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

For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic…

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

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

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

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful…

Researchers from Johns Hopkins using powerful supercomputer simulations have determined that the most likely explanation for a mysterious…

Artist’s impression of a MSP binary system. Credit: ESA & Francesco Ferraro (Bologna Astronomical Observatory) Millisecond pulsar binaries…

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