Their spin rate is so consistent that people who navigate spacecraft around our solar system use them as mile markers to know exactly where they are. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bca255d1db42174c41212b9/master/pass/SPoW_102018_04.jpg
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell wins $3 million prize for discovering pulsars
Enlarge / Pulsars are spinning neutron stars, the relics of massive stars gone supernova. (credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center) When the Nobel Prizes roll around each year, inevitably there is chatter not just about who will win, but about those in the past who should have won, but didn’t, particularly women scientists. Jocelyn Bell […]
NASA Just Proved It Can Navigate Space Using Pulsars. Where to Now?
For years it’s been the stuff of science fiction. Now NASA’s shown that pulsar navigation works. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a593a7ff11e325008172bc2/master/pass/pulsar-831502910.jpg
Galactic Glow, Thought to Be Dark Matter, Now Hints at Hidden Pulsars
A number of high-energy anomalies raised hopes that astrophysicists had seen their first direct glimpses of dark matter. New studies suggest a different source may be responsible. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a0f6318730b7d1967b94bdb/master/pass/pulsar-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
