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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Discovery of weird stellar pair leaves astronomers puzzled
May 16th, 2008 - 11:39 am ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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NASA satellite pins down timer in ’stellar bomb’
May 1st, 2008 - 2:20 pm ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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Astronomers discover timing mechanism of stellar time bomb
May 1st, 2008 - 1:37 pm ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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Youngest known pulsar is behaving strangely
February 22nd, 2008 - 12:05 pm ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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Neutron star might be changing into another star
February 21st, 2008 - 4:33 pm ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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Neutron stars more abundant, black holes rarer than earlier believed
January 15th, 2008 - 3:41 pm ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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Mysterious cloud of antimatter in Milky Way originates from binary stars
January 10th, 2008 - 1:06 pm ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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Astronomers discover white dwarf that emits X-rays like a pulsar
January 3rd, 2008 - 12:59 pm ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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Astronomers detect new neutron star
December 22nd, 2007 - 3:19 pm ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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‘Cosmic Cannonball’ discovered moving at 3 million miles per hour
November 29th, 2007 - 4:00 pm ICT by admin
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 ... Read more...
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