
Space
Scientists Say: Pulsar
These rapidly spinning dead stars send beams of radio waves into space like cosmic lighthouses.
By Skyler Ware
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These rapidly spinning dead stars send beams of radio waves into space like cosmic lighthouses.
The Cat’s Eye nebula is one of the most complex of its kind. A 3-D model now reveals the source of that complexity.
Neutrons are one of the main building blocks of atoms and have no electric charge.
Alternatively, this unseen wanderer might be a hefty neutron star. Whatever it is, its gravity caused starlight to be warped — and that gave it away.
Scientists can figure out a star's mass or composition pretty easily. Determining how old that star is, however, is a lot harder.
This dead star is also spinning very fast and has an amazingly powerful magnetic field.
The mysterious cosmic objects — first spotted by citizen scientists — turn out to be infant stars of various masses.
This is what scientists had suspected. But until one showed up outside our galaxy, they couldn’t be sure. Now they are.
Searching through data from NASA’s K2 Mission, researchers found a new planet. Some call it K2-315b, others smile and refer to it as “Pi Earth.”
Telescope observations of thousands of these stars now confirm a decades-old theory on how their masses relate to their waistline.