Death and Birth of Stars – Page 21 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Astronomers Get Rare Peek at Early Stage of Star Formation

Posted on March 14, 2012April 5, 2017

Using radio and infrared telescopes, astronomers have obtained a first tantalizing look at a crucial early stage in star formation.

Pulsars: The Universe’s Gift to Physics

Posted on February 19, 2012November 20, 2019

Pulsars, superdense neutron stars, are perhaps the most extraordinary physics laboratories in the Universe.

Artist's Conception of Dusty Disk Around Young Star TW Hydrae

From Earth’s Water to Cosmic Dawn: New Tools Unveiling Astronomical Mysteries

Posted on February 17, 2012December 10, 2019

Two new and powerful research tools are helping astronomers gain key insights needed to transform our understanding of important processes across the breadth of astrophysics.

VLBA, RXTE Team Up to Pinpoint Black Hole’s Outburst

Posted on January 10, 2012April 5, 2017

Astronomers have gained an important clue about a ubiquitous cosmic process by pinpointing the exact moment when gigantic bullets of fast-moving material were launched from the region surrounding a black hole.

Alexander Snider, Hannah Mabry, and Casey Thompson on-screen

Students Excited by Stellar Discovery

Posted on February 2, 2011April 5, 2017

In the constellation of Ophiuchus, above the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy, there lurks a stellar corpse spinning 30 times per second — an exotic star known as a radio pulsar.

Graphic of pulsar and white dwarf system

Most Massive Neutron Star Discovered

Posted on October 27, 2010April 5, 2017

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope have discovered the most massive neutron star yet found, a discovery with strong and wide-ranging impacts across several fields of physics and astrophysics.

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