News articles tagged with 'pulsar'
Astronomers discover most massive neutron star yet known
— 28 Oct 2010 14:51 | AstronomyAstronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered the most massive neutron star yet found, a discovery with strong and wide-ranging impacts…
Mysterious pulsar with hidden powers discovered
— 15 Oct 2010 12:47 | AstronomyDramatic flares and bursts of energy - activity previously thought reserved for only the strongest magnetised pulsars - has been observed emanating from a weakly magnetised, slowly…
Eclipsing pulsar promises clues to crushed matter
— 18 Aug 2010 07:38 | AstronomyAstronomers using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have found the first fast X-ray pulsar to be eclipsed by its companion star. Further studies of this unique stellar system…
Citizen scientists discover rotating pulsar
— 13 Aug 2010 07:24 | AstronomyIdle computers are the astronomers' playground: Three citizen scientists - an American couple and a German - have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo…
New 'fix' for cosmic clocks could help uncover ripples in space-time
— 25 Jun 2010 12:14 | AstronomyAn international team of scientists including University of British Columbia astronomer Ingrid Stairs has discovered a promising way to fine-tune pulsars into the best precision time-pieces…
Astronomers find cause of 'dicky tickers'
— 25 Jun 2010 10:29 | AstronomyIn today's issue of Science, CSIRO astronomer George Hobbs and colleagues in the UK, Germany and Canada report that they have taken a big step towards solving a 30-year-old puzzle:…
Pulsars in many octaves
— 24 Apr 2010 11:55 | AstronomyA unique combination of telescopes allowed astronomers to simultaneously observe the radio wavelength light from six different pulsars across wavelengths from only 3.5 centimetres up…
Nature's most precise clocks may make 'galactic GPS' possible
— 6 Jan 2010 12:01 | AstronomyRadio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The astronomers made…
Carbon atmosphere discovered on neutron star
— 5 Nov 2009 13:30 | AstronomyEvidence 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…
Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources
— 9 Sep 2009 17:00 | AstronomyScientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through…