Astronomers have been watching a nearby pulsar with a strange halo around it. That pulsar might answer a question that's…
There's a lot of mysterious goings-on at the center of the Milky Way. The supermassive black hole that resides there…
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According to a new study, the recent merger of two neutron stars (which was detected thanks to the gravitational waves…
Thanks to a team of researchers from the Netherlands, who used the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), the second fastest-spinning pulsar…
The Fermi Space Telescope has found the source of 'Big Bird', one of the most energetic neutrinos ever detected.
The universe, most cosmologists tell us, began with a bang. At some point, the lights turned on. How much light…
Last weekend (April 27, 2013), the Fermi and Swift spacecraft witnessed a “shockingly” bright burst of gamma rays from a…
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I loved my Spirograph when I was young, and obviously Eric Charles, a physicist with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope…