Millisecond Pulsars
Spider Pulsars are Tearing Apart Stars in the Omega Cluster
Pulsars are extreme objects. They're what's left over when a massive star collapses on itself and explodes as a supernova.…
The Heaviest Neutron Star Ever Seen Got There by Feasting on its Companion
Life's not too good if you're the companion of a black widow. Here on Earth, spiders by that name feast…
Second Fastest Pulsar Spins 42,000 Times a Minute
Thanks to a team of researchers from the Netherlands, who used the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), the second fastest-spinning pulsar…
NASA is Planning to Test Pulsars as Cosmic Navigation Beacons
The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is being deployed to the ISS, and promises to yield some impressive scientific…
Messier 5 (M5) – The NGC 5904 Globular Cluster
In the late 18th century, Charles Messier was busy hunting for comets in the night sky, and noticed several “nebulous”…
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…
Star Transforms Into A Diamond Planet
[/caption] "Remember when you were young... You shone like the sun." Four thousand light years away in the constellation of…