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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Washington, May 16 (ANI): Astronomers have been left puzzled after they discovery of a stellar pair - a speedy spinning pulsar in an elongated orbit around an apparent Sun-like star, a ...

Washington, May 1 (IANS) A NASA satellite helped astronomers pin down the timing mechanism in a ticking "stellar bomb" some 20,000 light years away. The twin-neutron star, designated as 4U 1636-53, produces ...

Washington, May 1 (ANI): An international team of astronomers has discovered a timing mechanism that allows them to predict exactly when a superdense star will unleash incredibly powerful explosions. The timing mechanism ...

New York, Feb 22 (IANS) The youngest known pulsing neutron star - or pulsar - is behaving altogether like another type of star, a magnetar, forcing a rethink among astronomers. One kind ...

Washington, Feb 21 (ANI): Observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have revealed that the youngest known pulsing neutron star in the Universe occasionally unleashes powerful bursts of X-rays, thus astronomers ...

Washington, Jan 15 (ANI): A new research developed using the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, has suggested that neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed, which makes it less ...

Washington, Jan 10 (ANI): Astronomers have traced the source of a mysterious giant cloud of antimatter surrounding the galactic center of the Milky Way galaxy, to binary star systems. The discovery took four ...

Washington, Jan 3 (ANI): New observations by astronomers has indicated that a white dwarf star in the Crab Nebula is emitting pulses of high energy X-rays as it whirls around on its ...

Paris, Dec 22 (ANI): A new type of neutron star has been detected by the XMM-Newton Science Operations Centres European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC). Astronomers observed the weird new type of star for ...

Washington, Nov 29: Astronomers have discovered one of the fastest moving (neutron) stars with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Known as RX J0822-4300, this 'cosmic cannonball' was observed over a period of about ...