An approximately 14 million year old pulsar star that is the “slowest-spinning” of its kind ever identified has been discovered by a PhD student from The University of Manchester. Chia Min Tan, a PhD ...

The Trailblazer: A spinning neutron star is tied to a mysterious tail – or so it seems. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory found that this pulsar, known as PSR J0357+3205 (or PSR ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace ...

While neutron stars typically rotate in milliseconds or seconds, ASKAP J1839-075 takes an astonishing 6.45 hours to complete ...

A HMXB can either have an early type O or B star. If the B star shows or had shown any H- emission line in the past, it is denoted as a Be star. Be stars also show excess in Infrared (IR) emission.

This powerful dead star rotates once every 6.45 hours (nearly ... That, in turn, may lead to a better understanding of how all types of pulsars form—and the role they play in our own galaxy.

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron ... More specifically, they think the source is a magnetar, a type of exceptionally magnetized neutron star. However, Lee admitted to IFLScience that only ...

So if a pulsar flashes every three seconds, we know that's how long it takes for the neutron star to rotate once. Pulsars are how we first learned that neutron stars are, well, neutron stars ...