Greek mythology has given a name to a great many objects in our solar system. But perhaps one of the least well understood are the Trojans, named after the people of Troy featured in "The Iliad." When ...

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have inspected two nearby ...

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"Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories that help us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- A group of Chinese researchers has reported the discovery of a new pulsar, which exhibits an exceptionally high spin-down rate, two orders of magnitude higher than that ...

Chinese astronomers have discovered a millisecond pulsar with an elevated spin-down rate, intense magnetic field and high ...