Like anthropologists piecing together the human family tree, astronomers have found that a misfit “skeleton” of a star may link two different kinds of stellar remains. The mysterious object, called ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Are two different types of stars actually the same thing? Recent research shows that two kinds of ...

Magnetars - stars with magnetic fields a thousand million million times stronger than Earth's - are formed when some of the biggest stars in the cosmos explode, says a team led by Australian ...

Astronomers have caught a highly magnetic dead star, or "magnetar," in the Milky Way briefly acting like a pulsar, a type of neutron star that rapidly rotates. The magnetar put on its pulsar disguise ...

It isn’t a secret that humanity and everything around us is made of star stuff. But not all stars create elements equally. Sure, regular stars can create the basic elements: helium, carbon, neon, ...

Composite image of Swift J1818.0−1607, the youngest pulsar ever observed, as seen by the EPIC-pn camera on ESA’s XMM-Newton. The image combines observations in the following energy bands: 2–4 keV (red ...

In amongst that static you can hear a very sci-fi sounding swooshing noise every five and a half seconds. It is actually the sound of a new kind of pulsar — a radio magnetar — that was discovered at ...

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