Playing Hide and Seek with a Pulsar
Today’s authors spotted the emission from a pulsar that hasn’t been seen in almost 20 years. Why has it been hiding, and what can we learn about it?
Today’s authors spotted the emission from a pulsar that hasn’t been seen in almost 20 years. Why has it been hiding, and what can we learn about it?
Today’s authors report on a new detection of the Geminga pulsar wind nebula and what this means for understanding the ultra high energy universe!
In eight new papers, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational waves (NANOGrav) presents evidence for a gravitational wave background. In this bite, we provide an overview of their results and their implications
The second white dwarf pulsar ever discovered was just announced, and it can teach us a lot about how these unique stars evolve!
We can’t exactly put massive neutron stars on scales, so how do we measure their masses? Today’s paper introduces a new method, using high-energy gamma rays!
Today’s classic paper summary covers the first exoplanet discovery- a pulsar planet!