Pulsars

Artist's impression of a pulsar. Credit: NASA

What is a pulsar? A complete guide to spinning neutron stars

An artist’s impression of a habitable exoplanet orbiting a pulsar. Image Credit: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

Habitable planets may exist round pulsars

Below this artist's illustration are three images captured by Chandra showing evidence that a clump of material has been blasted out of a double star system at high speeds. X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/G.Pavlov et al; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss

Pulsar punches hole in companion star disc

An image showing spiral galaxy NGC 5907, in which the record breaking pulsar resides. The inset box shows how the pulsar takes just 1.13 seconds to complete one spin. Copyright: ESA/XMM-Newton; NASA/Chandra and SDSS

Brightest, farthest pulsar ever detected

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Rare stellar encounter will create fireworks

Pulsar Planet 2 header

Exoplanet Excursions: January 2014