A Second Mysterious Radio Outburst from Magnetar XTE J1810-197
Why is one magnetar giving off bursts of energetic radio waves? Is it related to giant pulses? FRBs? Both?
The Pulsar Search Collaboratory: Making Pulsar Science Accessible to High School Students
Learn more about the Pulsar Search Collaboratory, a program that allows high school students to search for pulsars with the Green Bank Telescope!
Have You Ever Wanted to Generate You Own Gravitational Waves? Now You Can!
Gravitational wave simulations may take supercomputers days to perform, but two undergraduates and their advisor have created a website that allows you to do them in seconds right from your laptop!
Radio Pulsars: How Slow Do They Go?
The discovery of the slowest rotating radio pulsar, PSR J0250+5854, has scientists wondering – how slow do radio pulsars spin?
Testing Einstein’s Equivalence Principle by Timing a Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System
PSR J0337+1715, a millisecond pulsar in a hierarchical stellar triple system with two white dwarfs, provides a stringent test of gravity via Einstein’s strong equivalence principle!
Searching for Gravitational Waves from Continuous Sources Using Cosmic Lighthouses
Learn more about how the NANOGrav team is searching for gravitational waves using cosmic lighthouses!