Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope have discovered the fastest-spinning neutron star ever found, a 20-mile-diameter superdense pulsar whirling faster than the blades of a kitchen blender.
Fastest Pulsar Speeding Out of Galaxy, Astronomers Discover
A speeding, superdense neutron star somehow got a powerful ‘kick’ that is propelling it completely out of our Milky Way Galaxy into the cold vastness of intergalactic space.
First Stages of Planet-Building Around Nearby Star
Interstellar travelers might want to detour around the star system TW Hydrae to avoid a messy planetary construction site.
Scientists Track Collision of Powerful Stellar Winds
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope have tracked the motion of a violent region where the powerful winds of two giant stars slam into each other.
Old Star’s ‘Rebirth’ Gives Astronomers Surprises
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array radio telescope are taking advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to watch an old star suddenly stir back into new activity after coming to the end of its normal life.
Mysterious Magnetar Yielding Secrets to VLA
A giant flash of energy from a supermagnetic neutron star thousands of light-years from Earth may shed a whole new light on scientists’ understanding of such mysterious magnetars and of gamma-ray bursts.