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My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about recent discoveries about Neutron stars focusing on the last few months (as of mid 2024) It's holiday season here in East Asia so I'm spending a ...

Astronomers have caught a highly magnetic dead star, or "magnetar," in the Milky Way briefly acting like a pulsar, a type of neutron star that rapidly rotates. The magnetar put on its pulsar disguise ...

Astronomers have discovered that radiation emitted by a rapidly spinning neutron star, or "pulsar," is dominated by the impact of its powerful particle winds — and not by the material it strips from a ...

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These speedy pulsars get their name from having spin periods in the milliseconds, whereas normal neutron stars spin in the seconds range. The amped-up speeds of millisecond pulsars are likely thanks ...

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"More than half a century has passed since the discovery of neutron stars, but the mechanism of why glitches happen is not yet understood." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

An international team of astronomers using a state-of-the-art receiver system on the 305-m Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has discovered a binary pulsar system which promises to be an ...