06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
... at the turbulent and extreme environments of phenomena such as stellar and supermassive black holes, neutron stars and pulsars. The one thing these objects have in common is an abundance of high energy X-ray radiation and clues to the...
08 February 2017
Bridge between the Magellanic Clouds discovered
... measure the stars' properties. The astronomers are then able to locate various objects and events, including pulsars or explosions. The Cambridge team used Gaia data to study the Magellanic Clouds and locate RR Lyrae stars...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
... and evolve to produce the myriad of exoplanets we see today. Since the first confirmed detection of an exoplanet around a pulsar in 1991, thousands of exoplanets have been discovered and their diversity appears endless. All manner of exoworlds from...
30 December 2019
Will Betelgeuse go supernova soon? Probably not say some astronomers
... likely it will leave behind a neutron star that will eventually turn into a fast spinning star called a pulsar. But still, the prospect of witnessing a supernova first hand and having telescopes ready to document the after...
08 June 2020
New discovery provides important clues on mysterious cosmic bursts
In 2007, while looking through archival pulsar survey data, two astronomers spotted something very unusual; fleeting bursts of radio wave emission caused by some ...
26 June 2020
Giant ‘Exotica’ catalogue boosts search for alien life
... planet, stars with unusually high or low metal content, the most distant quasar and fastest-spinning pulsar, and the densest galaxy. 3) Anomalies: enigmatic targets whose behaviour is currently not satisfactorily explained. For instance...
