Why don’t they just break up?
Millisecond pulsars haven’t been observed to spin faster than ~700 Hz — if they don’t fly apart until ~1 kHz, why haven’t we found any faster specimens?
When is the next glitch on pulsar J0537-6910?
The next glitch on pulsar J0537-6910 can be predicted to within a few days.
The Spin-Down Rate of AR Sco is Impossible to Know… Right Now
We thought we knew how quickly the white dwarf pulsar in AR Scorpii was spinning down, but a new study tells us we can’t know for sure.
Hunting for Gravitational Waves from Spinning Neutron Stars
Continuous gravitational waves produced by spinning neutron stars are another avenue for LIGO to listen to the Universe.
Observing a Strange Pulsar in X-ray and Radio
Pulsars are weird in the first place, but PSR J1023+0038 is just a bit weirder.
Nuclear Pasta in Neutron Stars
Inside neutron stars we find exotic phases of matter called “nuclear pasta”.