The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour, as seen in the Chandra image along with an optical…
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As the shell of explosion debris from the supernova expands over a few decades, it becomes less dense and eventually becomes thin enough that radio…
The G292.0+1.8 supernova remnant contains a pulsar moving at over a million miles per hour, as seen in the Chandra image along with an optical…
An illustrated view of a black widow pulsar and its stellar companion. The pulsar’s gamma-ray emissions (magenta) strongly heat the facing side of the star…
Animation depicting a black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Cruz deWilde The system, which may have originated near…
View of the gamma-ray sky. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration Researchers from The Australian National UniversityFounded in 1946, the Australian National University (ANU) is a national…
Artist’s illustration of a neutron star binary. Credit: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey Double neutron starA neutron star is…
Orbiting 500 km above the earth, the Fermi Large Area Telescope collects gamma rays from millisecond pulsars. As these high-energy photons travel across the Milky…
J2030 X-Ray and Optical. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./M. de Vries; Optical: NSF/AURA/Gemini Consortium A city-sized collapsed star has generated a beam of matter and antimatter…
J2030 X-Ray and Optical. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./M. de Vries; Optical: NSF/AURA/Gemini Consortium Astronomers have imaged a beam of matter and antimatter that is 40…
Animation of a spinning neutron star in space. Neutron stars are directly observable, usually as “pulsars” – the lighthouses of the cosmos. Credit: NASA’s Goddard…
Researchers have conducted a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The international team looked to the stars — a pair of…
An artist’s impression of the colliding bubbles that can produce extremely low frequency gravitational waves during a cosmological phase transition in the early Universe. Credit:…
An artist’s impression of Pulsar — a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves into the cosmos. Credit: ICRAR / Curtin University Astronomers…
This animation shows the top view of a Millisecond Pulsar. Credit: NASA A group of astronomers has discovered 8 millisecond pulsars located within dense clusters…
X-ray emissions from the Crab Pulsar are more intense during giant radio pulses (GRPs), researchers report. The new findings provide constraints on the mechanisms underlying…
A group led by scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, using coordinated observations of the Crab pulsar in a number of frequencies, have…
The Crab Nebula, the six-light-year-wide expanding cloud of debris from a supernova explosion, hosts a neutron star spinning 30 times a second that is among…
Pulsars are fast-spinning neutron stars that emit narrow, sweeping beams of radio waves. A new study identifies the origin of those radio waves. Credit: NASA’s…
Multi-wavelength image of the Crab nebula, which hosts a glitching pulsar at its heart. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)…