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Neutron star
When a metal-rich, massive supergiant star collapses, it forms a neutron star. These stars are the smallest and densest of all known stellar objects and have a radius in the order of six miles and a mass about 1.4 times that of the Sun.
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APR 21, 2021Chemistry & Physics
A new pulsar has been discovered with images from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, a low-frequency radio t ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAPR 01, 2021Space & Astronomy
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Fast radio bursts are intense pulses of energy that come from light years away, popping fir a few milliseconds before di ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 25, 2020Chemistry & Physics
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Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are among the most explosive and energetic celestial events that have been observed by astronomer ...Written By: Daniel DuanOCT 31, 2019Chemistry & Physics
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Releasing the 80 years-worth entire solar energy in just a tiny fraction of a second, fast radio burst (FRB) is the one ...Written By: Daniel DuanJUN 14, 2019Chemistry & Physics
Scientists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment announced that they have finally figured ...Written By: Daniel DuanMAY 03, 2019Chemistry & Physics
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GW170817 is the code name given to a gravitational wave (GW) signal back in August 2017. With a duration of about 100 se ...Written By: Daniel Duan
APR 21, 2021
Chemistry & Physics
A new pulsar has been discovered with images from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, a low-frequency radio t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
APR 01, 2021
Space & Astronomy
Until now, astronomers had detected X-rays from every planet in our solar system apart from the two Ice Giants: Uranus a
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
NOV 13, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Scientists think they have witnessed the birth of a magnetar for the first time, when a massive burst of gamma rays took
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 07, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have identified a burst of cosmic radio waves- intense flashes of radio emission that last just a few millise
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
NOV 04, 2020
Space & Astronomy
A neutron star is born when a massive star dies out in a supernova, leaving its collapsed and incredibly dense core rema
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 24, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Navigating beyond Earth's orbit is tricky. Any misstep in movement could lead to the crushes of space probes and ves
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
SEP 18, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Back in 2017, scientists theorized that elements heavier than iron- such as gold- came to be following a collision betwe
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
SEP 07, 2020
Space & Astronomy
A bulky black hole, which may have already been the product of a black hole merger, appears to have tangled with a more
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 10, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Scientists have spotted a new kind of signal in space- four strange, circular objects. Three are particularly bright aro
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
JUL 06, 2020
Space & Astronomy
Fast radio bursts are intense pulses of energy that come from light years away, popping fir a few milliseconds before di
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 25, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Since the first discovery thirteen years ago, fast radio bursts (FRBs), a type of short radio pulses, have been fascinat
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 25, 2020
Space & Astronomy
An array of antennas in the US and Italy, known as the International LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, received some unusual rea
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAY 10, 2020
Space & Astronomy
When you think of stellar systems, you might be inclined to think of a system like our own with just one star, or perhap
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 26, 2020
Space & Astronomy
When you look at the confines of our solar system and notice just how large the Sun is when compared to Jupiter, the lar
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 03, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
According to a recent press release, a team of scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) developed a new wa
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
FEB 04, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are among the most explosive and energetic celestial events that have been observed by astronomer
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
OCT 31, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
It is safe to say that we live in a world of hydrogen and helium, the lightest elements in the periodic table. Born minu
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
AUG 24, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
The story of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) started back in 2007, when Australian astronomer Duncan Lorimer and his student dis
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUL 12, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
Releasing the 80 years-worth entire solar energy in just a tiny fraction of a second, fast radio burst (FRB) is the one
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 14, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
Scientists working at CERN's Large Hadron Collider Beauty (LHCb) experiment announced that they have finally figured
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAY 03, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
In particle physics, the term "strange matter" or "strange quark matter" refers to a hypothetical, s
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 24, 2019
Space & Astronomy
What exactly are pulsars? They are superdense, rapidly spinning neutron stars that are left behind when a massive star e
...
Written By:
Nouran Amin
MAR 23, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
Late 2018, iconic physicist Stephen Hawking's last work was published posthumously in the Journal of High Energy Phy
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
MAR 01, 2019
Chemistry & Physics
GW170817 is the code name given to a gravitational wave (GW) signal back in August 2017. With a duration of about 100 se
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan