In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period ...

That wobble is due to the influence of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and rapidly rotating neutron stars, or "pulsars." Fascinatingly, pulsars act like ...

Neutron stars are so named because in the simplest of models they are made of neutrons. They form when the core of a large star collapses, and the weight of gravity causes atoms to collapse.

Many more pulsars have been found since the first. They are believed to be rapidly rotating neutron stars with intense electromagnetic fields, which emit radio waves from north and south poles.

Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation from their poles, most commonly in the form of radio waves. The most rapidly rotating pulsars ...

The best pulsars are the fastest rotating, called millisecond pulsars, which keep time to better than a millionth of a second over a year. These sources rotate up to 700 times a second and are ...

Using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa, an international team of astronomers has detected three new millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster Messier 62 (also known as NGC 6266).

has discovered 43 new pulsars so far since its trial operation began in September 2016, the research team announced. A pulsar is a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star, which emits two beams of ...

Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars, one of the most important astronomical discoveries of the 20th ...

The starburst-like diagram is called a pulsar map, because it shows the location of our sun relative to known pulsars. Pulsars are the rapidly spinning remains of dying stars—the leftover cores ...