Astronomers Detect Unusual Radio Signals From Nearby Magnetar That Are ‘Behaving in Complex Ways’ Christopher Plain·April 13, 2024Astronomers say they have detected unusual radio signals behaving in complex ways coming from Earth's closest magnetar.
NASA Launches BurstCube on New Mission to Study Mysterious Short Gamma Ray Bursts Micah Hanks·March 22, 2024NASA has just sent BurstCube on the first leg of its scientific mission to study the most powerful explosions in the known universe.
Astronomers Baffled by a Mysterious Object in the “Mass Gap” Between Neutron Stars and Black Holes Christopher Plain·January 19, 2024Researchers from the Max Planck Institute in Germany have spotted an unknown object in the mass gap between neutron stars and black holes.
Neutron Stars are Full of Mountain Ranges That You Can Barely See Little Stars with Little Mountains. Sounds Cute Until One Gets To Close to the Earth and Rips You Apart Molecule by Molecule... Liam Stewart·July 20, 2021New research has shown that the mountains on neutron stars may not be very mountainous at all, only being a fraction of a millimeter in size.