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Einstein Right Again! Rapidly Spinning Pulsar Follows General Relativity
A unique and exotic laboratory about 6,800 light-years from Earth is helping Earth-based astronomers test Albert Einstein's theory of general…
12 years ago
Pulsar Sets New Speed Record
A pulsar may have been spotted racing through space at over 6 million miles per hour (9.65 million km/h), setting…
12 years ago
X-rays Unwrap a Poky Little Pulsar
[/caption] For the first time astronomers have located a pulsar – the super-dense, spinning remains of a star – nestled…
13 years ago
The Crab Gets Cooked With Gamma Rays
[/caption] It's one of the most famous sights in the night sky... and 957 years ago it was bright enough…
13 years ago
Super Star Smashes into the Record Books.
[/caption] The discovery of a super massive neutron star has thrown our understanding of stellar evolution into turmoil. The new…
14 years ago