News tagged with rotating neutron stars
High-energy Electrons Could Come from Pulsars -- or Dark Matter
May 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Something in our galactic neighborhood seems to be producing large numbers of high-energy electrons, according to new data gathered by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The electrons could ...
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Star crust 10 billion times stronger than steel, physicists find
May 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys.
Studying the 'mountains' and 'starquakes' that develop on neutron stars
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Neutron stars have the potential to play an important role in understanding some of the mysteries of the universe. One of factors that could help lead to an understanding of gravitational waves and the mechanisms ...
Now you see it, now you don't
Feb 22, 2006 |
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Some stars emit radio waves fairly steadily, while some compact neutron stars flash like beacons in the sky. But others brighten and dim erratically, without any discernible pattern to the outbursts, according to Maura McLaughlin ...
High-School Student Discovers Strange Astronomical Object
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A West Virginia high-school student analyzing data from a giant radio telescope has discovered a new astronomical object -- a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient.
Chandra Finds Star With a Mystery Partner
Jul 11, 2007 |
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When stars are more massive than about 8 times the Sun, they end their lives in a spectacular explosion called a supernova.
Neutron stars can be more massive, while black holes are more rare
Jan 14, 2008 |
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Neutron stars and black holes aren’t all they’ve been thought to be. In fact, neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed, and it is more difficult to form black holes, according to new research ...
Research sheds new light on neutron stars (w/ Video)
Nov 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by Michigan State University scientists has shed new light on the properties of neutron stars, galactic oddities that are formed when a large star runs out of fuel and collapses.
New technique improves estimates of pulsar ages
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a new technique to determine the ages of millisecond pulsars, the fastest-spinning stars in the universe.
Carbon Atmosphere Discovered on Neutron Star
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, resolves a ten-year ...
Not a Quirk But a Quark ... a Quark Star!
Jun 27, 2008 |
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Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star.
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