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And magnetars are the most extreme of all: most of them are newborn pulsars that possess magnetic fields up to 1,000 times stronger than normal.
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
The two planets, roughly four times the size of Earth, were discovered to be orbiting around a millisecond pulsar star named PSR B1257+12, which is 2,300 light-years away.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 9 Jan. 2026
In 1992 that changed, when astronomers spotted two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
In such a system, a rapidly spinning pulsar is joined by a smaller companion star, which would have once streamed material onto the pulsar and caused the pulsar to spin faster and power a strong wind, the release said.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
The two planets, roughly four times the size of Earth, were discovered to be orbiting around a millisecond pulsar star named PSR B1257+12, which is 2,300 light-years away.
—Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 9 Jan. 2026
In 1992 that changed, when astronomers spotted two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 2 Jan. 2026
In such a system, a rapidly spinning pulsar is joined by a smaller companion star, which would have once streamed material onto the pulsar and caused the pulsar to spin faster and power a strong wind, the release said.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
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Instead, the collapse results in a faint supernova with significant fallback, in which the heavier elements from the star’s core, such as oxygen, are sucked back past the event horizon and trapped in the black hole beneath.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
13 May 2026
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Yet, others reach our planet after being thrust into space in distant supernova explosions (the final blasts of stars that run out of fuel in their cores).—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
13 May 2026
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In the case of this Einstein Cross, the gravitational lens is the galaxy J1453g in near-perfect alignment with Earth and a distant quasar, the active region at the heart of the galaxy, which is powered by a feeding supermassive black hole.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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The team spotted the distant quasar, an actively feeding supermassive black hole, using observations from the Subaru Telescope.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Jan. 2026
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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
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To get a separate measure of how unusual this is, the researchers placed 8 million novas around the center of the galaxy, with the distribution being random but biased to match the galaxy's brightness under the assumption that novas will be more frequent in areas with more stars.—
John Timmer,
Ars Technica,
27 Sep. 2024
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Located 7,200 light-years away, Cygnus X-1 features not only a black hole — the first one ever identified more than a half-century ago — but a blue supergiant star, its constant companion.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Apr. 2026
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However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
26 Feb. 2026
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Brighton, Manchester City, Arsenal and Everton all fall into the latter category, and FPL managers should be paying close attention to this variable heading into the final stretch.—
Abdul Rehman,
New York Times,
11 May 2026
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The main booking variable is whether WWE creative uses Backlash to extend Fatu's chase or pull a swerve.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2026
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Now, however, the team behind the new research believes the events are caused when a compact stellar remnant, like a black hole or a neutron star, slams into the universe's hottest class of star, massive stellar bodies called Wolf-Rayet stars.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
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Gamma rays are the most energetic type of light rays, typically marking the last gasp of a dying star or the cataclysmic clap of two neutron stars.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
6 May 2026
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The sun will end its life as a white dwarf in around 6 billion years, fading alone in a cosmic graveyard that was once our solar system.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 May 2026
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In the center is a white dwarf, the dense, compact core of a dying star.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Pulsar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulsar. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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