NASA telescope discovers youngest pulsar to date
November 4th, 2011 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
Los Angeles, Nov 4 (IANS) NASA has announced the discovery of a pulsar estimated to be less than 25 million years old, the youngest ever found.NASA said in a press ... Read more...
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Supernova remnant erupts in enormous flares
May 12th, 2011 - 3:40 am ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. The outburst was ... Read more...
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Earth may witness second sun if Betelgeuse star in Orion nebula explodes
January 19th, 2011 - 6:47 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 19 (ANI): The Earth could have a second sun lighting up the sky, if only for a matter of weeks, should the infamous red super-giant star Betelgeuse in Orion's nebula ... Read more...
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Dying star coughs out dust cloud`
January 17th, 2011 - 4:56 pm ICT by IANS
London, Jan 17 (IANS) Astronomers on the look out for black holes have stumbled on a star that was fading with a whimper rather than a bang.
Astronomers first spotted the supernova ... Read more...
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Crab Nebula shoots off surprising flares
January 7th, 2011 - 6:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Scientists have discovered that the Crab Nebula, one of our best-known and most stable neighbours in the winter sky, has a propensity for fireworks-gamma-ray flares set off by ... Read more...
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Milky Way’s smallest black holes ‘don’t exist’
November 22nd, 2010 - 3:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 22 (ANI): A new study has revealed that black holes a few times the mass of the sun may not exist to begin with.Stars that are eight or more times ... Read more...
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NASA finds 30-yr-old ‘youngest’ nearby black hole
November 16th, 2010 - 12:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 16 (ANI): NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighbourhood.The 30-year-old black hole could help scientists better understand how ... Read more...
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Scientists discover ‘dramatic flares, bursts from mysterious pulsar’
October 15th, 2010 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 15 (ANI): Scientists have discovered dramatic flares and bursts of energy emanating from a weakly magnetised, slowly rotating pulsar.The international team of astrophysicists who made the discovery believes that the ... Read more...
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Black Hole Mystery Solved By The Discovery Of Magnestar
August 19th, 2010 - 6:47 pm ICT by Pen Men At Work
August 19, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): NASA Scientists have finally managed to solve the cosmic mystery which had been haunting them for almost 35 years now. The short gamma ray ... Read more...
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‘Magnetar’ discovery challenges stellar evolution, black hole theory
August 19th, 2010 - 1:11 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 19 (ANI): A neutron star with a mighty magnetic field has challenged the theories about stellar evolution and the birth of black holes, according to astronomers.The "magnetar" lies in a ... Read more...
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Eclipsed pulsar could be key to understanding compressed space matter
August 18th, 2010 - 4:23 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 18 (ANI): NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has found the first fast X-ray pulsar to be eclipsed by its companion star.The study will help scientists understand some of the ... Read more...
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A celestial menagerie on display in the Large Magellanic Cloud
June 2nd, 2010 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 2 (ANI): In a spectacular new image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, astronomers have discovered a celestial menagerie of vast globular clusters ... Read more...
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‘Sagittarius A’ Is A Poor Eater!
February 10th, 2010 - 8:50 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Feb 10 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Scientists have recently discovered that much to their surprise, the black hole Sagittarius A in the milky way eats less than what was being expected. It ... Read more...
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Astronomers finding “millisecond pulsars” at astonishing rate
January 7th, 2010 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 7 (ANI): An international team of astronomers is discovering exotic stars known as "millisecond pulsars" at an astonishing rate - much faster than ever before.In the last thirty years, only ... Read more...
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NASA telescope makes first detection of gamma-rays from microquasar
November 27th, 2009 - 3:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 27 (ANI): NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has made the first unambiguous detection of high-energy gamma-rays from an enigmatic microquasar.The microquasar is a binary system known as Cygnus X-3.The system ... Read more...
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Carbon atmosphere discovered on neutron star
November 5th, 2009 - 4:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 5 (ANI): NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has come across evidence for a thin veil of carbon on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant."The compact star at ... Read more...
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Physicist identifies mysterious core left by exploding star
November 5th, 2009 - 2:45 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 5 (ANI): A physicist from the University of Alberta in Canada has identified a mysterious core left by an exploding star.The physicist in question is University of Alberta physics professor ... Read more...
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High-school student discovers strange astronomical object
September 23rd, 2009 - 3:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, September 23 (ANI): A high-school student from West Virginia, US, analyzing data from a giant radio telescope, has discovered a new astronomical object - a strange type of neutron star called ... Read more...
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Indian scientist discovers X-ray bursts from neutron stars can help reveal their size
September 8th, 2009 - 1:35 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, September 8 (ANI): In a new research, an Indian scientist has determined that the pattern of x-rays generated by neutron stars may reveal their true size.According to a report by ABC ... Read more...
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XMM-Newton telescope uncovers celestial ‘Rosetta stone’
September 4th, 2009 - 12:40 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, September 4 (ANI): The ESA's (European Space agency's) XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone, in the form of the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling ... Read more...
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Crust of neutron stars 10 billion times stronger than steel
April 15th, 2009 - 2:25 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 15 (ANI): New simulations indicate that the crust of neutron stars is 10 billion times stronger than steel.According to a report in New Scientist, this finding makes the surface of ... Read more...
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Scientists find oldest isolated pulsar ever
February 27th, 2009 - 2:51 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): With the help of NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have found the oldest isolated pulsar ever detected in X-rays.The pulsar, PSR J0108-1431 (J0108 for short), which is ... Read more...
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Stars packed million times more densely in early universe
February 14th, 2009 - 7:27 pm ICT by IANS
London, Feb 14 (IANS) Stars in ultra compact dwarf (UCD) galaxies, discovered recently, may have been packed a million times more densely than in the solar neighbourhood, according to calculations made by ... Read more...
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Stellar object may have had stars packed together in early Universe
February 13th, 2009 - 2:37 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 13 (ANI): New calculations by scientists have suggested that Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies (UCDs), a recently discovered class of object, may have had stars packed together a thousand times ... Read more...
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NASA’’s satellites probe fireworks from a flaring gamma-ray star
February 11th, 2009 - 4:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 11 (ANI): Astronomers are using NASA''s Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to probe frequent blasts from a flaring gamma-ray star 30,000 light-years away.
The high-energy fireworks arise from ... Read more...
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NASA telescope unveils a dozen new pulsars
January 7th, 2009 - 2:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): NASA''s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 12 new gamma-ray-only pulsars and has detected gamma-ray pulses from 18 others.
"We know of 1,800 pulsars, but until Fermi we ... Read more...
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Scientists discover how magnetic stars produce X-rays
November 15th, 2008 - 2:49 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, Nov 15 (ANI): ESAs (European Space Agencys) XMM-Newton telescope has been used to test, for the first time, the physical processes that make magnetars, an atypical class of neutron stars, ... Read more...
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Gamma rays emitting pulsar to shed new light on stellar evolution
October 17th, 2008 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 17 (ANI): Astronomers have discovered a new class of pulsars that emit gamma rays, which would open a new window on the evolution of stars.
One such object was discovered ... Read more...
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Stellar blast gamma ray was aimed at earth: NASA
September 11th, 2008 - 12:58 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 11 (Xinhua) Data from satellites and observatories around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed almost directly at the Earth, the US ... Read more...
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First detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor
August 3rd, 2008 - 1:36 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 3 (ANI): Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis in the US have drawn the first detailed picture of the way a superfluid influences the behavior of a superconductor.In ... Read more...
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Lazy pulsar orbits a faster and more energetic companion in binary system
June 24th, 2008 - 1:21 pm ICT by ANI
Paris, June 24 (ANI): Astronomers have spotted an extremely rare sight of two pulsars orbiting each other in a binary system, in which a slowly-rotating lazy pulsar or neutron star (Pulsar ... Read more...
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Scientists rule out gravitational waves as reason behind pulsar braking
June 3rd, 2008 - 1:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 3 (ANI): Scientists have ruled out gravitational waves as the reason behind the slowing down of a mysterious spinning neutron star known as the Crab Pulsar, a phenomenon known ... Read more...
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Evidence of explosive conversion of neutron star into quark star found
June 3rd, 2008 - 12:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 3 (ANI): Astronomers have claimed that they have found possible evidence of the explosive conversion of a neutron star into a quark star, dubbed as a Quark-Nova.The astronomers who ... Read more...
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Astronomers discover giant elliptical ring around dead star
May 29th, 2008 - 1:43 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 29 (ANI): Astronomers have detected a giant elliptical ring around a rare star known as magnetar, a highly magnetized neutron star and the remnant of a brilliant supernova explosion ... Read more...
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Supernova birth seen for first time by astronomers
May 22nd, 2008 - 1:06 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 22 (ANI): Astronomers have observed the death of a star for the first time in the form of a stellar explosion, which is also the first detection of the ... Read more...
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