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Magnetars: Meet Some of the Most Powerful Stars in the Known Universe
Neutron Stars It all starts with a bang. Neutron stars are, as the name implies, composed almost exclusively out of neutrons. And the facts only get cooler (and stranger) from here. These are a type of...
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Watch: What Happens When a Star Dies?
See what causes a collapsed star to become a black hole, a neutron star, or a white dwarf. The post Watch: What Happens When a Star Dies? appeared first on Futurism.
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Astronomers Discover a New Source of Spectacular Radio Jets
JET SETTER In a ranking of cool space phenomenon, radio jets have to take a spot near the top. They're near-light-speed blasts of material from black holes or neutron stars, which are known as “stellar...
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SpaceX Scores NASA Contract to Launch Black Hole Spacecraft
Black Hole Explorer NASA just awarded SpaceX a contract to launch what the agency's calling a "groundbreaking astrophysics mission:" NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which...
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A Neutron Star "Glitched"— and Scientists Noticed Something Amazing
Cosmic Bug Back in 2016, a neutron star named Vela "glitched" — it suddenly started spinning much more rapidly due to yet-unconfirmed causes. Now, a closer look at the data capturing during that glitch...
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Astronomers Just Spotted the Most Massive Neutron Star Ever
Mad Dense A team of astronomers from West Virginia University claim they've discovered the most massive neutron star to date, packing in more than double the mass of the Sun into a sphere that's only...
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Stare Into the Brutal Maw of This Barbarous Neutron Star
Imaging Pisces For the first time, NASA managed to map the entire surface of a neutron star (read: the cosmic carcass of a massive star after it detonates in a massive supernova explosion). The neutron...
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Scientists Detect Epic Neutron Star Collision
The Humanity! Astronomers at the LIGO observatory have — for the second time ever — detected the cosmic ripples given off by a brutal collision between two distant neutron stars. LIGO scientists...
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Astronomers Watch Neutron Star "Charge Up" Before Huge X-ray Blast
Charging Up For the first time, astronomers were able to watch the entire process of a neutron star absorbing material and eventually unleashing a powerful blast of x-rays. Scientists have long...
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Astronomers May Have Discovered First-Ever "Black Neutron Star"
If a star is gigantic enough, it can collapse in on itself to form a black hole. Stars that are still huge, but not big enough to become black holes, tend to explode in supernovae, eventually...
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Scientists Are Baffled By a Bizarre Black Hole-Like Object
Mass Gap Last week, astrophysicists announced a bizarre, unprecedented celestial object that sits smack in the middle of the theoretical divider separating black holes from neutron stars. The object,...
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Astronomers May Have Found a Star That's Just 33 Years Old
A team of astronomers have observed what they believe to be a neutron star being born following a supernova first detected in 1987, in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way 170,000 light-years from...
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Astronomers Pinpoint Source of Mysterious Radio Burst Signal
Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are blips of cosmic energy that can unleash hundreds of millions times more power than the Sun in just a tiny fraction of a second. They've long puzzled astronomers — and...
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Scientists Are Pretty Sure They Just Saw Two Stars Crash Into Each Other
Big Boom After an onslaught of gamma rays reached astronomers' telescopes in May, they rushed to train more instruments on what they assumed was a merger of two neutron stars. The resulting explosion...
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Scientists Puzzled by "Spooky" Object Sending Radio Signals Every 18 Minutes...
Astronomers are flummoxed by a mysterious celestial object that appears to be releasing massive bursts of energy at regular 18 minute intervals. Like a lighthouse, the beacon is sending out radiation...
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Planets Scream as They're Ripped Apart, Scientists Say
Oh, the Humanity An accidentally-poignant study suggests that some planets may emit a scream-like blast of cosmic radio waves as they crumble out of existence. In a new interview with Science News,...
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Pulsar Devours Neighbor, Becomes Heaviest Neutron Star Ever Observed
Die In the Sky Watch out, because this thing eats entire stellar masses: a rapidly rotating collapsed star known as a pulsar is making a meal out of its neighboring star, nearly devouring it whole....
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Staggering Galactic Explosion Blamed on Black Hole Collision
Scientists believe an immense explosion they detected was the result of a black hole colliding with a star. The 50-second blast, dubbed GRB 211211A, released copious gamma rays in a galaxy about 1.1...
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Grim Blades of Energy Could Chop Stars in Half, Scientists Say
Massive Attack When massive stars run out of fuel, weird and spectacular things can happen. When these stellar giants — churning with titanic nuclear fusion reactions — reach the end of their lifespan,...
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Here's What it Looks Like When Two Black Holes Collide
Black holes are the most massive objects in the known universe. We have discovered a number that put our Sun (and our entirely solar system) to shame. In fact, just this past year, scientists...
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