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Scientists Discover Proof for the Most Powerful Pulsar

Using data from the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS), astronomers have identified one of the youngest neutron stars known—the superdense relic of a huge star that burst like a supernova.

17 Jun 2022

Astronomers Discover a Multiplanet System Nearby

Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a new multiplanet system within our galactic neighborhood that lies just 10 parsecs, or about 33 light-years, from Earth, making it one of the closest known multiplanet systems to our own.

16 Jun 2022

Creating Matter Waves that can Stay on Forever

Imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficult. We use lasers in printers, CD players, pointers, measuring devices, and so on. What makes lasers so special is that they use coherent waves of light: all the light inside a laser vibrates completely in sync.

14 Jun 2022

Millisecond Pulsars May Address Excess Gamma-Ray Signal in the Milky Way Center

According to a team of astrophysicists in recent research published in Nature Astronomy, an unexplained signal from the core of the Milky Way might be caused by old and rapidly spinning neutron stars known as millisecond pulsars.

13 Jun 2022

Researchers Discover Numerous Brown Dwarfs for the Very First Time

Brown dwarfs are enigmatic astronomical objects that exist between the heaviest planets and the smallest stars, with both stellar and planetary features.

10 Jun 2022

First-Ever Appearance of Previously Undetectable Quantum Excitation Captured

A Quantum Science Center-supported team has captured the first-ever appearance of a previously undetectable quantum excitation known as the axial Higgs mode.

9 Jun 2022

Scientists Reveal How Certain Jets of Particles Lose Energy in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Scientists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have revealed how certain particle-jets lose energy as they traverse the unique form of nuclear matter created in these collisions. The results, published in Physical Review C, should help them learn about key "transport properties" of this hot particle soup, known as a quark-gluon plasma (QGP).

9 Jun 2022