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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 ...

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 ...

The discovery of a rare type of white dwarf star system provides new understanding into stellar evolution. White dwarfs are small, dense stars typically the size of a planet. They are formed when a ...

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, ...

Using the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), astronomers have detected a new radio pulsar in a binary system with a massive non-degenerate companion star. The discovery of the ...

Astronomers have witnessed a never-seen-before event in observations by ESA’s XMM-Newton spacecraft – a collision between a pulsar and a ring of gas around a neighbouring star. The rare passage, which ...