Maura McLaughlin, Chair, Eberly Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University, created the Pulsar Search Collaboratory to engage high schoolers and undergraduates in ...

The starburst-like diagram is called a pulsar map, because it shows the location of our sun relative to known pulsars. Pulsars are the rapidly spinning remains of dying stars—the leftover cores ...

PSR J1833−3840 is the only eclipsing pulsar out of the four and was classified as a "black widow" as it has a semi-degenerate companion with a mass of less than 0.1 solar masses. PSR J1833− ...