When young stars mix with neutron stars, things get messy.

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The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) recently captured an extraordinary image that features both ...

Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the universe. Formed from the collapsed cores of supergiant stars, they weigh more than our Sun and yet are compressed into a sphere the size of a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When a star up to 20 times the mass of our sun exploded in a nearby galaxy, the blast was so violent that it was visible to the naked eye from Earth's southern hemisphere for ...

An artist's impression of one of the cool neutron stars. Image credit: ICE-CSIC/D. Futselaar/Marino et al. | Credit: ICE-CSIC - D. Futselaar - Marino et al. Scientists have found that three neutron ...

An international team of astrophysicists from China and Australia has for the first time determined how massive neutron stars are when they are born. "Understanding the birth masses of neutron stars ...

WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - Magnetars are among the universe's most extreme objects - a class of the compact stellar remnants called neutron stars that possess immensely strong magnetic fields.