Pulsars
New Exoplanet-Hunting Mission to launch in 2017
Move over Kepler. NASA has recently green-lighted two new missions as part of its Astrophysics Explorer Program. These come as…
Pulsar Jackpot Scours Old Data for New Discoveries
Chalk another one up for Citizen Science. Earlier this month, researchers announced the discovery of 24 new pulsars. To date,…
The Vela Pulsar as a Spirograph
I loved my Spirograph when I was young, and obviously Eric Charles, a physicist with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope…
Gamma-ray Outbursts Shed New Light on Pulsars
Researchers using the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have developed a new method to detect a…
Recycling Pulsars – The Millisecond Matters…
[/caption] It's a millisecond pulsar... a rapidly rotating neutron star and it's about to reach the end of its mass…
Students Discover Millisecond Pulsar, Help in the Search for Gravitational Waves
[/caption] A special project to search for pulsars has bagged the first student discovery of a millisecond pulsar – a…
Journal Club: The Pulsar That Wasn’t
[/caption] According to Wikipedia, a Journal Club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles…
New NASA Mission Hunts Down Zombie Stars
[/caption] Neutron stars have been classed as "undead"... real zombie stars. Even though technically defunct, the neutron star continues to…
Astronomers Find the Justin Bieber of Millisecond Pulsars
[/caption] Astronomers using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found a surprisingly young, powerful and luminous millisecond pulsar. Over the…
Fermi Gamma Ray Observatory Harvests Cosmic Mysteries
[/caption] When it comes to high-energy sources, no one knows them better than NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Taking a…