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A newfound, oddly slow pulsar shouldn’t emit radio waves — yet it does The slowpoke pulsar sits in our galaxy, roughly 1,300 light-years away ...
The brightest extra-galactic pulsar has been identified in the Large Magellanic Cloud (pictured). Credit: Pennock et al. Astronomers have confirmed that an object they thought was a distant galaxy ...
Space propulsion company Pulsar Fusion has started construction on a large nuclear fusion chamber in England, as it races to become the first firm to fire a nuclear fusion-powered propulsion ...
This pulsar, dubbed PSR J1023+0038, has two different modes of brightness — and switches between them almost constantly, which may be due to sudden ejections of matter.
A new analysis, from the High Energy Stereoscopic System array in Namibia, reveals a pulsar that radiates at 20 trillion electron volts — making it the most energetic pulsar ever seen.