When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Drawing of a sun-like star orbiting a hidden neutron star. | Credit: Caltech/Kareem El-Badry Astronomers have discovered 21 “one in a million” binary systems, in which sun-like stars orbit a hidden “dead star” – an extremely dense and compact… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. (main) drawing of a neutron star (inset) radio image of the S-shaped precession jet ejected by the neutron star Circinus X-1. | Source: Fraser Cowie Astronomers have captured for the first time a strange S-shaped jet emanating from a… Read More »
A dead star, devouring its own planets like an angry cosmic zombie, is scarred by planetary debris. The printed metal scar is located on the surface of this white dwarf star; When the Sun dies, such stellar remnants will remain behind, indicating the existence of “life after death” for planetary systems. The scar on the… Read More »
Scientists may be closer than ever to solving the mystery of what lies deep beneath the surface of extremely dense, dead stars called neutron stars. A new supercomputer analysis of neutron stars has found that there is between an 80% and 90% chance that these objects have nuclei filled with free quarks, fundamental subatomic particles… Read More »