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 ...
Neutron Stars Gone Wild: How Magnetars Get Their Insane Magnetic Power
A breakthrough simulation reveals how magnetars form and evolve, solving a key mystery about their magnetic origins.
Supernova simulations show that low-mass star in binary system J0453+1559 could be a neutron star
In 2015, astrophysicists discovered a system consisting of two compact stars orbiting each other: a pulsar (i.e., a highly ...
Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...
Did astronomers just witness the formation of a 'strange star?'
Moreover, even those quarks (the up and down that comprise a neutron) get compressed into an even rarer type of quark called a strange quark—hence the name strange star. Technically, the "strange" ...
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Entwined dwarf stars reveal their location thanks to repeated radio bursts
A white dwarf and a red dwarf star have been discovered closely orbiting each other emitting radio pulses every two hours.
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At the origin of mega-magnetic stars
Magnetars are a class of neutron stars with the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. These incredibly dense objects are central in the landscape of extreme phenomena such as hypernovae, fast ...
Distant star explosions could have wiped out life on Earth twice
"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...