Fast radio bursts originate near neutron stars, revealing their magnetically chaotic environments and scintillation patterns.
Learn how researchers have interpreted the story of one particular fast radio burst that emerged from a neutron star 200 ...
Celestial fireworks that erupt all year long but last a fraction of a second, fast radio bursts, may have traced them to the ...
Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...
NASA welcomed the new year by releasing a series of 19 gorgeous images of spiral galaxies. Combining data from the JWST’s ...
Betelgeuse, one of the most luminous stars visible from Earth, continues to surprise astronomers. The red giant’s brightness ...
Some space images have become timeless icons of our exploration of the cosmos. Take the famous photo of the Pillars of ...
Most of the neutron stars we know of have a mass between 1.4 and 2.0 Suns. The upper limit makes sense, since, beyond about ...
Stars are born in stellar nurseries, molecular clouds of cold gas and dust. These clouds contain many times the mass of a ...
Miller contributed his neutron star merger simulations to The Well, one of the two datasets released by Polymathic AI. This dataset includes numerical simulations of complex phenomena, such as ...
Lead author Dr. Charlotte Angus, from the Astrophysical Research Centre (ARC) at Queen's University, said that as the shell ...