With the first direct detection of gravitational waves at the top of many physicists’ wish list, Louise Mayor describes how radio astronomers are hoping to reveal these ripples in space–time by ...
Hiding within the huge catalog of newly found pulsars are several "spider pulsars," or neutron stars that devour their companion stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
Pulsar array artist’s impression of how NANOGrav observes pulsars in an effort detect gravitational waves. (Courtesy: NANOGrav/T Klein) The observation of tiny deviations in the arrival times of radio ...
The largest single-dish radio telescope in the world has already begun to spot remarkable objects in the Milky Way, just a year into its career. China’s Five hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio ...
In 1992, astronomers discovered the first exoplanets in an unexpected part of the universe: around a pulsar, a rapidly spinning stellar corpse. Not many other pulsar planets have been found since then ...
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