One way to explore these ideas is to look at pulsars. Since pulsars are rotating neutron stars where their magnetic pole sweeps in our direction, we can measure the rate of rotation by timing the ...

But now, a rare burst has provided indications that FRBs likely originate near the star and that they share a feature with ...

Pulsars are the rapidly spinning remains of dying stars—the leftover cores of supernova explosions. They're only about 12 to 15 miles in diameter, but most contain more than twice the mass of ...

Some space images have become timeless icons of our exploration of the cosmos. Take the famous photo of the Pillars of ...

Pulsars, like black holes, are formed from dying stars. Weighing up to twice the mass of the Sun, they are just 20km across and can spin up to 700 times a second. As they spin, they emit radio ...

This data revealed patterns in pulsar signals showing how they were impacted by the passage through gas and dust that exists between stars, the so-called "interstellar medium." Related ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange celestial object named GLEAM-X J162759.5−523504.3, which is sending out bursts of radio waves at regular intervals. The discovery was made using older data ...

Stars of the types considered in this chapter differ from those discussed so far, inasmuch as, for various reasons, they do not (or cannot) appear on the H–R diagram. As before, we shall rely on ...

Millisecond pulsars are just rapidly rotating neutron stars that happen to sweep a beam of radio energy in our direction with each rotation. So, unless a neutron star experiences a rare starquake ...