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…

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…

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our…

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 |