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Pulsars Could Explain the Excess of Gamma Radiation Coming from the Center of the Milky Way
A gamma-ray view of the sky centered on the core of the Milky Way Galaxy. Could strange spinning neutron stars…
The Expanding Debris Cloud From the Kilonova Tells the Story of What Happens When Neutron Stars Collide
When two neutron stars collide, it creates a kilonova. The event causes both gravitational waves and emissions of electromagnetic energy.…
Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Star That Flashes Every 20 Minutes. But What is it?
An ultra-long period object might be a magnetar, but it could also be a type of object we've never seen.
Astronomy Jargon 101: Magnetars
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! Hang on to your magnetic hats,…
Neutron Stars Have Mountains, They’re Just a Fraction of a Millimeter High
The universe has some very extreme places in it - and there are few places more extreme than the surface…
A Nearby White Dwarf Might be About to Collapse Into a Neutron Star
A white dwarf star has been found that's more massive than our Sun, but about the same size as our…
How Squeezable are Neutron Stars?
Two neutron stars. One is 50% more massive than the other, yet they are almost exactly the same size. The…
A new way to see Inside Neutron Stars
Astronomers study neutron stars using a method made famous by jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
Astronomers think they’ve seen a magnetar form for the first time; the collision of two neutron stars
Astronomers have seen how two neutron stars created the brightest kilonova ever observed.
Merging Black Holes and Neutron Stars. All the Gravitational Wave Events Seen So Far in One Picture
The Theory of Relativity predicted the existence of black holes and neutron stars. Einstein gets the credit for the theory…