Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku have detected quasi-periodic oscillations in an X-ray binary, XTE J0111.2−7317, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A powerful X-ray pulsar is whipping around its stellar partner at a record-breaking speed ...

Neutron stars may not remain a mystery for much longer, as an x-ray pulsar named J1749.4-2807 may yet reveal their secrets.

Scientists analyzing the first data from the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission have found two stars that revolve around each other every 38 minutes—about the time it ...

It was first identified as a millisecond radio pulsar in 2005 with the National Science Foundation’s Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) and then later rediscovered as an X-ray pulsar by ...

Strange X-ray source is the brightest pulsar ever observed Two ultraluminous X-ray sources, two very different objects. Xaq Rzetelny – Oct 22, 2014 9:30 am | 32 ...

Astronomers have employed the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) to observe the X-ray pulsar RX J0032.9-7348 in a broadband X ...

The corkscrew pattern of the X-ray jet suggests the pulsar is wobbling like a spinning top. IGR J11014-6103 is also enveloped in a pulsar wind nebula that blows behind it in a comet-like tail that ...

The discovery of the X-ray pulsar in the binary system was made using NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission, which was installed on the International Space Station in ...

How about the “ghostly cosmic hand” of a star corpse that exists 16,000 light-years away from Earth? With the help of NASA‘s newest X-ray telescope, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer ...

X-ray Pulsar . NASA . Scientists analyzing the first data from the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission have found two stars that revolve around each other every 38 ...