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 ...

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 ...

Magnetars: The more magnetic cousins While pulsars may be the most reliable neutron stars, magnetars are the troublemakers of the family. The magnetic field around a magnetar is about a thousand ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mysterious repeating bursts of radio waves that fire in random patterns might come from neutron ...

Odd flashing pulses coming from a super-magnetic star called magnetars have astronomers glued to telescopes across the globe. Magnetars are particularly energetic versions of neutron stars, which are ...

ASKAP J1832-0911 is a long-period radio transient (LPT) object, which emits radio waves in periods of tens of minutes. But it is also the first LPT known to emit X-rays. This mysterious object could ...

Neutron stars are one of the end products of supernovae, the explosive death some massive stars experience. They are extremely dense and have incredible properties. It's thought the collision of two ...

It's a terrible infant. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If Copernicus had orbital X-ray telescopes or powerful radio receivers, ...

Researchers have made observations of a new magnetar, called Swift J1818.0-1607, which challenges current knowledge about two types of extreme stars, known as magnetars and pulsars. Researchers from ...

In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic objects with the discovery of a magnetar. New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory help support the idea that it ...

Using pulsar measurements collected from the European Pulsar Timing Array, PulChron monitors 18 of the most regular pulsars in the night sky. The large sample size helps to weed out any timing ...