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Citizen Scientists Discover Rotating Pulsar
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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Idle computers are the astronomers' playground: Three citizen scientists--an American couple and a German--have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo Observatory. (2010-08-13)
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Astronomers find cause of "dicky tickers"
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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In today's issue of Science, CSIRO astronomer George Hobbs and colleagues in the UK, Germany and Canada report that they have taken a big step towards solving a 30-year-old puzzle: why the "cosmic clocks" called pulsars aren't perfect. (2010-06-29)
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Pulsars in many octaves
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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A unique combination of telescopes allowed astronomers to simultaneously observe the radio wavelength light from six different pulsars across wavelengths from only 3.5 centimetres up to 7 metres - a difference-factor of 200, providing an unprecedented view of how radio pulsars shine. (2010-04-23)
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Fermi large area telescope points the way to new millisecond pulsars
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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The discovery of seventeen new millisecond pulsars was announced today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting by scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team of international researchers. (2010-01-06)
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Nature's most precise clocks may make 'galactic GPS' possible
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The astronomers made the discovery in less than three months. (2010-01-06)
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Fermi Sees Brightest-Ever Blazar Flare
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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A galaxy located billions of light-years away is commanding the attention of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and astronomers around the globe. (2009-12-10)
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Carbon atmosphere discovered on neutron star
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, resolves a ten-year mystery surrounding this object. (2009-11-05)
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Fermi Large Area Telescope reveals pulsing gamma-ray sources
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Space Science Division and a team of international researchers have positively identified cosmic sources of gamma-ray emissions through the discovery of 16 pulsating neutron stars. (2009-09-10)
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NRL's Large Area Telescope explores high-energy particles
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is making some exciting discoveries about cosmic rays and the Large Area Telescope aboard Fermi is the tool in this investigation. (2009-07-29)
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NASA's Fermi Telescope Probes Dozens of Pulsars
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars. (2009-07-07)
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The cosmos is green: Researchers catch nature in the act of 'recycling' a star
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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For the first time, researchers have observed a singular cosmic act of rebirth: the transformation of an ordinary, slow-rotating pulsar into a superfast millisecond pulsar with an almost infinitely extended lifespan. (2009-05-22)
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Astronomers catch a star being revved-up
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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Researchers have witnessed a star being transformed into an object that spins at almost 600 times a second using telescopes in the USA and the Netherlands, and CSIRO's Parkes telescope in Australia. (2009-05-22)
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NASA's Fermi Explores High-energy
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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Since its launch last June, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away. (2009-05-05)
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A young pulsar shows its hand
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09/09/2010 01:31 AM
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A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. (2009-04-06)
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