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The object has a highly unusually long rotation period, and was found in an area we call the neutron star ‘graveyard’.
The pulsar PSR J0523-7125 is more than ten times brighter than any other radio pulsar outside the Milky Way.
Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars and some of them are know to have a “glitch”, and astronomers have captured one as it hapened.
In mid 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell at Cambridge University was helping to build a telescope. She went on to discover a little bit of “scruff” - the first evidence of a pulsar.
Astronomers have found a small star (a pulsar called PSR J1824-2452I) undergoing a radical transformations. The pulsar’s…
A magnetar - a type of pulsar with a strong magnetic field - has been found at the centre of our Milky Way, allowing researchers…
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