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Fig. 1: An artist’s impression of the ‘lumininescent’ magnetosphere surrounding a pulsar. The pulsar itself is invisible in this view and sits at the very centre of the image. Above the pulsar’s ...

There’s a new record holder for brightest pulsar ever found — and astronomers are still trying to figure out how it can shine so brightly. It’s now part of a small group of mysterious bright pulsars ...

The positions of the cataloged pulsars shown in a top-down view of the Milky Way. The red and orange symbols indicate millisecond pulsars, while the green and blue symbols indicate young, unrecycled ...

Pulsars, remnants of exploded stars, have intrigued scientists with their distinct properties and behaviors for decades. Emerging research indicates that one such pulsar could function akin to a ...

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(Nanowerk News) The central question in the ongoing hunt for dark matter is: what is it made of? One possible answer is that dark matter consists of particles known as axions. A team of ...

Darmstadt, 12 December 2019. Scientists have reached a new frontier in our understanding of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks to NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition ...

Imagine a star so dense that a teaspoon of its material would weigh as much as Mount Everest, spinning hundreds of times per second while beaming radio waves across the universe. These are pulsars, ...

At the center of the Milky Way, a supermassive black hole hides behind veils of dust, gas, and warped spacetime. Now a strange pulsar, PSR J1745-2900, appears to be circling close enough to feel that ...

Scientists have announced the discovery of nearly 300 gamma ray pulsars. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in conjunction with the international Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration, ...