Neutron Star

An Earth-size Diamond in the Sky: The Coolest Known White Dwarf Detected

We live in a vast, dark Universe, which makes the smallest and coolest objects extremely difficult to detect, save for…

10 years ago

Spin! Crab Pulsar Speed Jumps Linked To Billions Of Tiny Vortices

Pulsars -- those supernova leftovers that are incredibly dense and spin very fast -- may change their speed due to…

10 years ago

Asteroid Swarm ‘Pounded’ Pulsar Star, Causing Changes Visible From Earth

When you throw a bunch of rock and debris at a rapidly spinning star, what happens? A new study suggests…

11 years ago

Runaway Pulsar Produces Longest Jet Trail Ever Observed

One of the fastest-moving pulsars ever observed is spewing out a record-breaking jet of high-energy particles that stretches 37 light…

11 years ago

Will The Sun Explode?

All stars die, some more violently than others. Once our own Sun has consumed all the hydrogen fuel in its…

11 years ago

This Spooky X-Ray ‘Hand’ Demonstrates A Pulsar Star Mystery

That spooky hand in the image above is producing questions for scientists. While the shape only coincidentally looks like a…

11 years ago

Suddenly Slowing Star Could Give Hints Of Its Interior

Why would a spinning star suddenly slow down? Even after writing a scientific paper about the phenomenon, astronomers still appear…

11 years ago

Galactic Gas Cloud Could Help Spot Hidden Black Holes

The heart of our Milky Way galaxy is an exotic place. It's swarming with gigantic stars, showered by lethal blasts…

12 years ago

Supernova G350 Kicks Up Some X-Ray Dust

[/caption] Located some 14,700 light years from the Earth toward the center of our galaxy, a newly photographed supernova remnant…

13 years ago

Did a Neutron Star Create the “Christmas Burst”?

[/caption] On December 25, 2010, at 1:38 p.m. EST, NASA's Swift Burst Alert Telescope detected a particularly long-lived gamma-ray burst…

13 years ago