"Astronomers have now found that sudden ejections of matter," are behind the changes in brightness being observed in pulsar ...

Data from the Chandra X-ray Telescope has revealed spider pulsars, which are a group of dead stars, in globular cluster Omega Centauri "preying' on nearby stars. The Chandra team explains. Credit: ...

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 ...

WVU researchers are making their mark in a growing field of research focused on studying a phenomenon known as gravitational ...

The absence of data bounding a given transition into (or out of) a radio-on phase is another disadvantage in measuring the second derivatives of intermittent pulsars, as was recently demonstrated by ...

A West Virginia University researcher at the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology is pulling back the curtain on an ...

Known for: Discovery of pulsars - a type of neutron star that emits a beam of radiation. Scientific achievements: As a research student at Cambridge University's Cavendish laboratory, she was ...

They changed the name of the signal from LGM to CP, for Cambridge pulsar. Many more pulsars have been found since the first. They are believed to be rapidly rotating neutron stars with intense ...

A MYSTERIOUS object orbiting our planet has become a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories, with some claiming it might be a ...

After all, out of our Milky Way Galaxy’s estimated 200,000 pulsars, it’s likely that some small fraction will have planets that have simply yet to be detected. The first known extrasolar ...

This "pulsing" appearance gives some neutron stars the name pulsars. After spinning for several million years pulsars are drained of their energy and become normal neutron stars. Few of the known ...

These strategies, which range from watching pulsars to measuring quantum fluctuations, hope to catch a much wider variety of gravitational waves, with frequencies in the megahertz to nanohertz range.