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New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic structures around city-sized neutron stars in ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of atomic nuclei, and they possess some of the strongest gravitational fields of ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently captured an extraordinary image that features both the explosive remnants of a dead star and the birth of a new one. This ...