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Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408,…
A first-of-its-kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90…
An international team studying data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope concludes the mission detected a rare, unusually luminous supernova.…
Since the big bang, the early universe had hydrogen, helium, and a scant amount of lithium. Later, some heavier elements,…
Originally designed as a satellite dedicated to studying GRBs — gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos —…
This is an artist's impression of a magnetar, which is a special type of neutron star with an incredibly strong…
Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown…
Using two of the agency’s X-ray telescopes, researchers were able to zoom in on a dead star’s erratic behavior as…
“Twinkle, twinkle little star” goes the nursery rhyme. Now, astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the…
