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Death and Birth of Stars


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.

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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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Artist's Conception of the Milky Way

New Star-Forming Regions in Milky Way

Posted on May 26, 2010April 5, 2017

Astronomers studying the Milky Way have discovered a large number of previously-unknown regions where massive stars are being formed. Their discovery provides important new information about the structure of our home Galaxy and promises to yield new clues about the chemical composition of the Galaxy.

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Core-collapse supernova explosion expelling nearly-spherical debris shell.

Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means

Posted on January 27, 2010April 5, 2017

For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma rays from it.

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Shay Bloxton

West Virginia Student Discovers New Pulsar

Posted on January 19, 2010April 5, 2017

A West Virginia high-school student has discovered a new pulsar, using data from the giant Green Bank Telescope.

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Artist's conception of Algol star system

Giant Magnetic Loop Sweeps Between Stellar Pair

Posted on January 13, 2010April 5, 2017

Astronomers have found a giant magnetic loop stretched outward from one of the stars making up the famous double-star system Algol. The scientists used an international collection of radio telescopes to discover the feature, which may help explain details of previous observations of the stellar system.

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