Its proximity to the supernova remnant HB9 once suggested a supernova birth. However, with only 80 arcminutes separating them ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

A neutron star is the densest object astronomers can observe directly, crushing half a million times Earth's mass into a sphere about 12 miles across, or similar in size to Manhattan Island ...

Scientists recently announced the first detection of gravitational waves created by two neutron stars smashing into ... mass of our sun, and are thus incredibly dense. Just a sugar cube of neutron ...

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An exploding supernova throws hot gas into space. Depending on the mass at the start of its life, a supernova will leave behind either a neutron star or a black hole. A black hole is anything but ...