A fuzzy smudge of light visible from the Southern Hemisphere, the Large Magellanic Cloud looks modest to the naked eye. But ...

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered 15 new millisecond pulsars in 47 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of ravenous spider pulsars eroding surrounding stars as seen by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Space Telescope. NASA's space-based ...

Researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, have identified a ...

The windy and chaotic remains surrounding recently exploded stars may be launching the fastest particles in the universe. Highly magnetic neutron stars known as pulsars whip up a fast and strong ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious emission, known as the Galactic Center Excess, glows in high-energy gamma rays ...

Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (IAR) have collaborated to make the first pulsar observations from South America. A new paper published in Astronomy ...

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The article recounts Jocelyn Bell Burnell's 1967 discovery of highly regular radio signals, initially termed "scruff" and briefly "LGM-1," which led to the identification of pulsars as rapidly ...

A "clutter" of rapidly spinning neutron stars are evaporating the stars around them, as seen by the Chandra X-ray Space Telescope. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomía (IAR) have collaborated to make the first pulsar observations from South America. A new paper published in Astronomy ...