360 results for "neutron star"

Astronomers have captured a remarkable image of a garden sprinkler-like jet emanating from a neutron star, offering new insights into the extreme physics of these celestial objects. Discovery of the...

Astronomers have discovered the slowest spinning neutron star ever recorded, designated ASKAP J1935+2148, located 16,000 light-years from Earth. Unlike typical neutron stars that can spin up to 700 times per...

Posted on Feb 4, 2021 in Astronomy, Science In 1967, Jocelyn Bell, then a graduate student in astronomy at Cambridge University, noticed a strange signal, a series of sharp pulses...

Posted on Feb 8, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Supernova Seething supergiant Betelgeuse –a star so huge it could someday collapse into a black hole or neutron star, which would make...

Posted on Feb 1, 2021 in Science, Space “Our Galileo?” –Harvard’s Avi Loeb Has Dared Say That Advanced Alien Life May Not Be Speculation “A Red Herring” –The ‘Life-Bearing’ Clouds...

Posted on Jan 20, 2021 in Astronomy, Science Cosmic sleuths are attempting to locate one of the estimated one billion neutron stars in the Milky Way–the collapsed core of a...

Posted on Jul 8, 2020 in Astronomy, Physics, Science Neutron stars are an end state of stellar evolution, says astrophysicist Paul Lasky, at Australia’s Monash University and OzGrav. “They consist...

Posted on May 18, 2020 in Astronomy, Milky Way Galaxy, Science Gravitational waves, an oscillatory space warp –an oscillating stretch and squeeze of space, according to Stephen Hawking, have revealed...

Posted on May 27, 2020 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science In January of 2019, astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii and the University of Hawaii Institute...

Posted on Jan 18, 2020 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Hole Our knowledge of black holes has grown exponentially since Princeton quantum physicist John Wheeler first named these enigmatic monsters in...

Posted on Dec 16, 2019 in Astronomy, Galaxies, Science, Space This stunning image of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, with vast its arms like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space,...

Posted on Aug 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Featured Articles, Science, Space Astronomers are confident that they’ve just detected the first black hole gobbling up a neutron star, with one slight...

“Perhaps the most likely scenario for ‘life’ near a neutron star or black hole involves colonization … by robotic missions from a civilization around another nearby star,” astronomer James Cordes...

Posted on May 8, 2019 in Astronomy, Science “The universe is keeping us on our toes,” says physicist Patrick Brady, spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. On April 25, 2019,...

Posted on May 30, 2019 in Astronomy, Science, String Theory A strange glow coming from the Milky Way’s center was thought to be due to a hidden population of pulsars....

Posted on Jan 23, 2022 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Neutron Star, Science The heaviest natural elements on the periodic table such as gold, platinum, and uranium were forged during the mergers...

Posted on May 11, 2021 in Astronomy, News, Science What would life be like on a planet orbiting a pulsar? Astronomers estimate that the Milky Way galaxy contains an estimated...

Posted on Mar 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Science Astronomers observed a ghostly pulsar, a superdense, rapidly spinning neutron star exploded from a supernova 10,000 years ago, racing through space at...

Posted on Jan 11, 2019 in Astronomy, Science “We know from theory that black holes and neutron stars form when a star dies, but we’ve never seen them right after...

“Mergers of black holes with neutron stars are exceptionally rare in the Universe.  “An actual merger of a neutron star with a black hole happens, perhaps, once every million years...

“I’ve never seen anything like this before in the local universe,” said Stephen Smartt, an astrophysicist at Queen’s University Belfast and a lead scientist for the Hawaii-based ATLAS survey, which...

Posted on Sep 17, 2018 in Astronomy, Discovery, Science, Space “This particular neutron star belongs to a group of seven nearby X-ray pulsars — nicknamed ‘the Magnificent Seven’ — that...

“We measured an apparent motion that is four times faster than light. That illusion, called superluminal motion, results when the jet is pointed nearly toward Earth and the material in...

Posted on Aug 16, 2018 in Astronomy, Physics, Science, Space “If we did discover exotic neutron decays, then we would in the same stroke also learn something amazing about the...

The first-ever observations of merging binary stars stunned the world’s astronomy community, but not quite as stunning as the first-ever signal from extraterrestrial life will be.  GW170817 is the name...

“LIGO will start taking data again in January 2019, and it will be much more sensitive, meaning we’ll be able to see objects farther away. So LIGO should see at...

Posted on Jun 19, 2018 in Dark Matter, Science, Space, Universe Until today, nobody has conducted such a fifth force test with an exotic object like a neutron star. “There...

Posted on Apr 12, 2018 in Uncategorized   Deep space is not as silent as we have been led to believe. Every few minutes a pair of black holes smash...

Posted on Dec 19, 2017 in Uncategorized   "Maybe we have underestimated some events, or something is unaccounted for that we'll need to revise the standard cosmology of the universe,"...

Cosmic rays zapping the Earth over the South Pole appear to be coming from particular locations, rather than being distributed uniformly across the sky. Cosmic ray "hotspots" have also been...

Posted on Jun 15, 2021 in NASA, Physics, Space, Universe The 2017 discovery of a binary neutron star merger opened a new era in astronomy. It marked the first time...

Astronomers are revisiting long-standing assumptions about the iconic red supergiant Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, as a new study suggests it might not be a...

In an extraordinary scientific breakthrough, astronomers have discovered magnetic stars beyond the Milky Way for the first time. These stars, located in the Magellanic Clouds, have provided new insights into...

Recent astronomical observations have uncovered a mysterious phenomenon: stars disappearing from the night sky. Over the past 70 years, about 800 stars have vanished without the typical explosive end of...

Posted on Sep 30, 2022 in Science, Science News, Space News Today’s stories include The last planet you’d want to live on to Stunning new Europa pictures beamed home by...

“The R-Process Alliance aims to answer the big, unanswered questions related to decoding the mysteries of the oldest stars in the Milky Way–by bringing together an interdisciplinary group of observers,...

Posted on Mar 4, 2022 in Astronomy, Black Hole, Science, Stars The first black hole to be discovered was Cygnus X-1 in 1964. It comprises a black hole and a...

Our very strange Universe delivered its usual fascinating news stories over the past few days, ranging from Evolution Tells Us We Might Be the Only Intelligent Life in the Universe...

A gravitational wave isn’t a ripple through objects in spacetime; it passes through spacetime itself. Gravitational waves make the Universe itself vibrate, says Brian Clegg, author of Gravitational Waves: How...

Posted on Jul 8, 2021 in Astronomy, Science, Supernova An extremely important discovery reveals a new pathway for the formation of heavy elements in the infant universe.  A ‘magneto-rotational hypernova’...

“This newly discovered black hole could be an ancient relic—a primordial black hole—created in the early Universe before the first stars and galaxies formed,” said Eric Thrane from the Monash...

Posted on Mar 6, 2021 in Astronomy, Science VY Canis Majoris, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way and 300,000 times brighter than our Sun, “is behaving...

“It’s worthwhile to not just do what was done 60 years ago, but also to keep an eye out for very unusual things,” says SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak. “The...

Posted on Sep 4, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science, Solar System Unlike our remarkably flat Solar System, with its planets all orbiting in the same plane, the alien star-system GW...

“Without phosphorus there would be no thought,” observed Jacob Moleschott a 19th-century physiologist and philosopher. Phosphorus is one of the six main elements that make up the human body and...

Posted on Aug 19, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Astronomers have discovered the source and cycle of mysterious ultra-bright gamma ray flashes, which runs on a clockwork 162-days at a distance...

Did primordial Black holes –described as “the gates of hell, the end of spacetime, paradoxical, intriguing, frightening” by the Event Horizon Telescope scientists who imaged the now iconic black hole...

Posted on May 20, 2020 in Astronomy, Exoplanets, Science “Thousands of exoplanets have been identified so far, but little is known about how they form,” says Anthony Boccaletti at the...

Posted on Mar 4, 2020 in Astronomy, Dark Matter, Physics Theories about the origin of dark matter in the universe –one of the biggest questions in science–vary from suggesting that...

Posted on Feb 5, 2020 in Science Star system HD101584 is special in the sense that this ‘death process’ was terminated prematurely and dramatically as a nearby low-mass companion star...