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. A montage of new images with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which turned 25 on July 23. | Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO It is truly the summer of cosmic anniversaries. Following the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and Space.com’s… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows a rapidly spinning neutron star surrounded by a blue magnetic field emitting jets of radio waves. | Credit: NASA Goddard/Walt Feimer Scientists plan to use dead star “clocks” to shed light on the universe’s most mysterious… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. (Main) Illustration of a rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar (inset) millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715. | Credit: NASA/Sharon Morsink/Devarshi Choudhury et al. Astronomers using the NASA X-ray telescope aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have weighed a rapidly spinning,… 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 »
Amaris McCarver, an intern in the Remote Sensing Division at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and a team of astronomers have discovered a rapidly spinning neutron star that is emitting beams of radiation like a lighthouse across the universe. The rapidly spinning neutron star, or “pulsar,” is located within the dense star cluster Glimpse-CO1,… Read More »
Scientists may have unlocked the secret of the still-beating hearts of “dead stars” at the far reaches of the universe – but the explanation is twisted. The team thinks this “glitch” in the rotation of a class of neutron stars called pulsars is caused by an avalanche of quantum tornadoes as they become entangled with… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered the slowest spinning radio-emitting neutron star ever seen; It takes almost an hour to complete a full rotation. That might sound pretty fast, but these dead stars are known to spin so fast that some make 700 full rotations each. second. Even the slowest of the nearly 3,000 radio-emitting neutron stars, or… Read More »
A new NASA project allows Instagram users to experience the wonders of the universe seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other space telescopes. It’s an augmented reality (AR) filter called the “Instagram experience” that takes stunningly beautiful celestial objects and places them right next to you on camera. This includes stellar debris destroyed in… Read More »
Scientists have discovered strong evidence that there are some. big stars They end their existence not with a bang but with a whimper and sink into a swamp. black hole Without the light and anger of a being, their own actions supernova. To understand why this matters, we need to start with a crash course… Read More »