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A two-faced star just helped weigh an extra-massive pulsar. The star takes about four hours to orbit its companion, a fast-spinning stellar corpse called a pulsar that’s about 10,000 light-years from ...

Astronomers have added a new species to the neutron star zoo, showcasing the wide diversity among the compact magnetic remains of dead, once-massive stars. While it’s an oddball, some of this newfound ...

A rapidly spinning dead star’s wacky fluctuations in brightness are due to the extreme environment surrounding the object, according to a team of astronomers who observed it. Pulsars are fast-spinning ...

This cannibal star system could be a gravitational wave detecting machine. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Every 4 milliseconds, ...

Astronomers have found two new X-ray pulsars spinning in the Small Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way’s neighbor. This brings the total number of pulsars there to 25 and drives home the fact that our ...

ESA’s Integral space observatory, together with NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft, has found a fast-spinning pulsar in the process of devouring its companion. This finding supports the ...